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Halya Coynash: Elderly pensioner arrested by Kremlin-backed militants for a Ukrainian flag
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People celebrate National Flag Day at Saint Sophia Square in Kyiv on Aug. 23.
Seventy-three-year-old Anna Ivanivna Hrusha was first attacked, then manhandled by Kremlin-backed militants on Ukrainian Flag Day and taken to a local police station. There they threatened to take her home away from her or lock her up in a psychiatric clinic.