PEREVALSK, Ukraine -- The armed camouflaged men and women immediately stand to attention when Ataman Nikolai Kozitsyn enters the salmon-hued hall of the Soviet-era House of Culture he uses as one of his three offices.
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Donetsk People's Republic during a swearing-in ceremony in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Nov. 22.
