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In Azerbaijan, an oil rich but poverty stricken nation, President Ilham Aliyev has been cracking down on journalists.

They call the village of Chermalyk in Donetsk Oblast near the northern banks of the Sea of Azov and the area around it the grey zone, because its centre is being controlled by separatists. Formally, it is hard for the government to establish control over cities and villages in the grey zone.

According to Ukrainian Interior Minister's adviser Anton Gerashchenko, a hand grenade has been thrown in law enforcement forces; he also states that around 30 people have been detained.

Clashes between police forces and protesters started near the Parliament building after MPs supported decentralization amendments to the Ukrainian constitution.

[Kremlin] regime wants to make itself last longer, but by doing all of that they just bring their own collapse closer. And people who believed in reforms and order yesterday, they observe processes like ours today and losing faith in authorities, so tomorrow these 86% of people will overthrow the ruling authoritarian regime, told OIeksandr Kolchenko to the court.