Crimeans have voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia, election officials in the breakaway peninsula said, with extraordinarily high figures capping a one-sided campaign of intimidation and heavy-handed tactics that blocked most voters from hearing a vision for any alternative other than unification with Moscow. In Sevastopol, officials say the turnout was 89.5 percent, and preliminary results are that 93 percent have chosen to join Russia.
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