Crimea Votes: The Day in Pictures

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By Evgeny Feldman2014-03-16 15:46:23 UTC

In a quickly called referendum, Crimea voters went to the polls on Sunday to choose whether to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.

With Crimea's electorate composed mostly of ethnic Russians, the referendum was widely expected to support a split from Ukraine. But with the Kiev government calling the vote illegitimate and with other countries saying they won't recognize the outcome, it remains to be seen what happens next.

Evgeny Feldman, a staff photographer for the Russian publication, Novaya Gazeta, spent the day in Crimea's main cities, Simferopol and Sevastopol, as the vote progressed under the watchful eyes of masked soldiers aligned with Russia.

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