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Reuters reports that parliament leaders in Ukraine’s heavily pro-Russian Crimean peninsula on Monday ordered that the American soap opera "Santa Barbara" be broadcast with Russian, rather than Ukrainian dubbing. Some 500 Crimean Communists demonstrated last week in Simferopol, the region’s main city, denouncing the replacement of a Russian-dubbed "Santa Barbara" with a Ukrainian one.

1. Interfax, September 11

2. Interfax, September 11

3. Interfax, Sept. 11

4. Interfax, September 8, 9, 10, 11

5. Radio Russia, Itar-Tass, September 10-11; Rossiiskaya gazeta, September 11

6. RIA-Novosti, September 10; Russian TV and Russia’s Radio, September 11

7. Russian public TV, September 10

8. Russian public TV, September 9

9. Russia’s Radio, Itar-Tass, September 11

10. RIA-Novosti, September 9; Rabochaya tribuna, July 29, August 1-2-3

11. Radio Mayak and Russia’s Radio, September 11

12. Kishinevskie Novosti, September 9

13. Basapress and Flux, September 11

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