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[image: Pro-Russian fighters vote during an independence referendum at their position in the eastern Ukranian city of Slavyansk on May 11, 2014]<http://www.repost.us/article-preview/hash/a319c205d54ca2d9f76c77704673162a> Vasily Maximov/AFP Pro-Russian fighters vote during an independence referendum at their position in the eastern Ukranian city of Slavyansk on May 11, 2014 Pro-Russian rebels late Sunday claimed a massive turnout for a vote to split off east Ukraine into two independent republics, but Kiev and the West dismissed it as a "farce" that could worsen the violence wracking the ex-Soviet nation. v[image: People queue to the polling stations during a referendum in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 11, 2014]<http://www.repost.us/article-preview/hash/a319c205d54ca2d9f76c77704673162a> With many polling stations closed, activists in the more than dozen insurgent-controlled towns were counting ballots behind closed doors. In the rebel hub of Donetsk, AFP and other media were barred from entering to observe the process. The tallying rounded out a tense day in east Ukraine, where troops are waging an ongoing offensive against pro-Moscow gunmen. [image: A map of Ukraine showing regions voting in separatist referendums on May 11]<http://www.repost.us/article-preview/hash/a319c205d54ca2d9f76c77704673162a> A map of Ukraine showing regions voting in separatist referendums on May 11 [image: A man casts his ballot in an independence referendum called by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine on May 11, 2014 in Ternove village, near Lugansk]<http://www.repost.us/article-preview/hash/a319c205d54ca2d9f76c77704673162a> Isolated violence flared in some towns. A freelance photographer working for AFP said he saw at least two people shot and badly wounded in the town of Krasnoarmiysk, apparently by a group of armed pro-Kiev militants. *(continued below)* [image: People queue to vote in referendum in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 11, 2014]<http://www.repost.us/article-preview/hash/a319c205d54ca2d9f76c77704673162a> *Pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine claim ‘massive’ turnout for self-rule vote – what are your comments?* *G**reg Dempsey * *http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/*<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SECULARHUMANIST/> *Voice of the Pe**ople* *======* Pro-Russian forces in east Ukraine claim ‘massive’ turnout for self-rule vote *By Agence France-PresseSunday, May 11, 2014 12:43 EDT* *...The pro-Russian rebels put voter turnout at over 70 percent in the two provinces voting for self-rule: Donetsk and Lugansk, home to seven million of Ukraine's total population of 45 million.* *With haphazard voter registration, no neutral monitors, incomplete electoral rolls, and no international backing at all -- not even from Russia -- that assertion lay open to challenge.* *Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt already challenged it, writing on his official twitter feed: "Figures from fake referendums in Eastern Ukraine likely to be fake. No way of knowing even turnout."* *People queue to the polling stations during a referendum in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on May 11, 2014* *However rebel leaders hinted strongly that the poll results, expected to be announced on Monday, were roundly in favour of making the two regions sovereign republics.* *"Turnout was better than we expected," the rebel chief of the self-styled People's Republic of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, said.* *"Thanks to this referendum, we will be able to decide our own future," he said, adding that "we must make those occupying our land leave".* *Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, the self-styled mayor of the flashpoint town of Slavyansk, boasted that the rebels could go on to organise other polls, including on whether to become part of Russia. 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