Tensions ahead of Ukraine elections
{"Image ImageDescription": "A Pro-Russian militant smokes a cigarette during a briefing at a check-point on the road between Donetsk and Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, on May 25, 2014. Ukrainians turned out en masse Sunday in an election seen as crucial to ending months of bloody upheaval but pro-Russian rebels managed to shut down polling in swathes of the east. The former Soviet republic is fighting for its very survival after Russia seized Crimea and separatists launched an armed uprising in the eastern industrial belt. AFP PHOTO / FABIO BUCCIARELLIFABIO BUCCIARELLI/AFP/Getty Images", "Image Artist": "FABIO BUCCIARELLI", "Image Copyright": "??Fabio Bucciarelli / AFP"}