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Saakashvili crosses Ukrainian border (PHOTOS)

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Border guards stand in line on the Ukraine-Poland border in Shyheni on Sept. 10.
Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stripped ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship in July, while Saakashvili was abroad. But that did not stop him from staging a dramatic return to Ukraine, helped by hundreds of supporters who broke through a cordon of border guards to allow him to reenter Ukraine on Sept. 10. Read the coverage here:

Saakashvili breaks through into Ukraine, comes to Lviv (VIDEO)

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