Ceasefire offers hope to Russian candy factory owned by Ukraine leader


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  • Sunday, 05 Oct 2014

A general view shows a Roshen Confectionery Corporation plant near Lipetsk in this March 28, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev/Files

LIPETSK Russia (Reuters) - Now that their boss, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, has finally shaken hands with Russia's Vladimir Putin, the staff running the lone Russian factory in Poroshenko's chocolate empire can finally see better days ahead.

Since March, when Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and pro-Russian rebels rose up in eastern Ukraine, the Lipetsk Confectionary Factory has been raided by armed police, boycotted and accused by Russian politicians of supporting extremism.

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