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Kiev and Moscow in dispute over naval port

By Stefan Wagstyl and Roman Olearchyk

Published: May 28 2008 02:36 | Last updated: May 28 2008 02:36

“There’s one,” says Gennady Basov, pointing to a Russian flag on a car aerial in the Black Sea naval port of Sevastopol. “There’s another, and another.”

It could be a children’s game. But Mr Basov is 37 and has an entirely adult agenda – he is a pro-Russia activist promoting a Russian sense of identity in a city that Moscow lost to Ukraine with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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