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Ukrainian Lawmaker: 'We Are Hostages Of Putin'

Robert Siegel talks to Mustafa Nayyem, who is in Washington, D.C., to receive the Wilson Center Ion Ratiu Award for his reform work in Ukraine. He's a Ukrainian journalist credited with starting the Euromaidan protests in 2013 and is now a member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

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