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UKRAINIAN border guards have stopped young communists from attending the World Festival of Youth and Students in neighbouring Russia.

The Ukrainian Komsomol delegation tried to cross at the Goptovka border checkpoint north of Kharkiv on Friday but were detained by the guards.

They were heading for Sochi, where the 19th edition of the festival started on Saturday with about 20,000 delegates from 150 countries gathering in the Black Sea city to mark its 70th anniversary and the centenary of the Russian Revolution.

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