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Russian language approved for limited official use in Ukraine, sparking protests

The law has sparked fistfights in parliament as well as demonstrations and hunger strikes.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich take part in a documents signing ceremony after a session of the Ukrainian-Russian state commission in the Livadia Palace, just outside Yalta, in the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine, on July 12, 2012.

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