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A mother's protest in Kyiv; death of a war correspondent

Svetlana Izmailova marches to demand that her son's death gets the recognition it deserves. And we discuss the death of AFP journalist Arman Soldin, killed in eastern Ukraine earlier this week.

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Svetlana Izmailova’s son Volodymyr died last year, at the age of just 37 years old. 

I met her this week, when along with hundreds of others, she protested on the street, holding a portrait of her son in front of her.

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