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A top cleric from the Russian Orthodox Church said he was refused entry to Ukraine this week amid an escalating stand-off between Moscow and Kiev over separatist unrest in Ukraine's east. The church's Department of External Relations said its head, Metropolitan Hilarion, was turned back on Friday at the airport in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk where he came to award a prize to a local cleric. \"I was given no explanation,\" Hilarion told Russian state news channel Rossiya 24. \"Apparently my name, and possibly the names of other Church hierarchs, are on a list of people who are banned from entering Ukraine.\" The Ukrainian border guard declined to comment.
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