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Bluenorthwest

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9. From that same Guardian article:

Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:17 AM

Mar 2014

"No major international organisations are monitoring the vote, but a group of observers from 23 countries – a mixture of anti-western ideologues and European far-right politicians – have arrived of their own accord and gave a press conference in Simferopol on Saturday evening.

Belá Kovács, an MEP from the far-right Hungarian party Jobbik, said everything he had seen on Saturday conformed to international standards and he expected the vote to be free and fair."

For those who don't know Jobbik:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobbik

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