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Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko (L) joins Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko at the Presidential Administration building following Savchenko's return to Ukraine on May 25, 2016 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
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Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko (L) joins Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko at the Presidential Administration building following Savchenko's return to Ukraine on May 25, 2016 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
A woman looking for some of her belongings is seen trough the hole in the wall of destroyed apartment building in Pechatniki district of Moscow, September 9, 1999. (ALEXANDER MEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)
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A woman looking for some of her belongings is seen trough the hole in the wall of destroyed apartment building in Pechatniki district of Moscow, September 9, 1999. (ALEXANDER MEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)
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