By Matt Robinson and Alessandra Prentice MARIUPOL/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Moscow rebels pressed ahead with a referendum on self-rule in east Ukraine on Sunday and fighting flared anew in a conflict that could dismember the country and pitch Russia and the West into a new Cold War. Another said the vote would not change the region’s status, but simply show that the East wanted to decide its own fate, whether in Ukraine, on its own or as part of Russia. In others, clashes broke out between separatists and troops, over ballot papers and control of a television tower. Zhenya Denyesh, a 20-year-old student, was second to vote at a concrete three-storey university building in the rebel stronghold of Slaviansk.

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