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(FILES) A file picture taken 21 May 1999 shows a man sleeping under an advertisment in the center of Kiev. In the mid-1990s, there were 52 million Ukrainians. A decade later, there are less than 47 million Ukrainians left as this former Soviet republic has haemorrhaged the equivalent of the population of Denmark to emigration, alcoholism and low birth rates. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY