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Final News Summary For September 29
-- We have started a new Ukraine Live Blog. Find it here.
-- Ukraine is marking 75 years since the World War II massacre of 33,771 Jews on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Kyiv.
-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stabilize a fragile cease-fire in Ukraine and do all he could to improve what Merkel called a "catastrophic humanitarian situation" in Syria.
-- Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a decision by a Moscow-backed Crimean court to ban the Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars in the occupied Ukrainian territory.
* NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv (GMT/UTC +3)
More on the Russian judge who presided over the Savchenko trial. The Interfax news agency quoted the Donetsk City Court as saying that Leonid Stepanenko resigned on his own free will and the bar association had accepted his resignation letter merely as a formality.
