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Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova said both Moscow and Kyiv are interested in future contacts between their rights commissioners, the Russian state-owned TASS news agency has reported.

Following a meeting this week in Turkey with her Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Lubinets, Moskalkova said she believed Ukraine had adopted a pragmatic approach to ongoing discussions between the two sides.