Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Election monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) called Ukraine's parliamentary elections ''free and fair'' at a news conference in Kyiv today. They said the election offered voters ''real choice'' and that voting was transparent -- despite the fact that the poll was not held in separatist-held eastern Ukraine or in Crimea, which was annexed in an internationally unrecognized move by Russia. This is video from Reuters:

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OSCE Says Ukraine Elections 'Free And Fair'

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Popular Russian singer and Duma lawmaker Iosif Kobzon (right) sings with separatist leader in eastern Ukraine Aleksandr Zakharchenko in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine. Kobzon appeared in the rebel stronghold despite a ban by Ukrainian authorities on his entry to Ukraine.