Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have backpedalled on legal proposals which they issued that did not recognise Russia's annexation of the Crimea peninsula.
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Representatives of self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Denis Pushilin (L) and Vladislav Deynego (R) walk after a talk on resolving the Ukranian conflict on May 22, 2015 in Minsk.
