Mayor held hostage by insurgents

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine -- When armed men seized the police station in this eastern Ukrainian city, mayor Nelya Shtepa declared she was on their side. She changed her story a few days later. Then she disappeared -- the victim of an apparent abduction by the man who now lays claim to her job.

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