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The battle for Aden was coming soon, Jemajem said, and the separatists would be making a mistake to resist them.

Over the next week, Facebook groups that once explicitly called themselves "white nationalists" or "white separatists" would be likely to rebrand themselves under more acceptable terms, said Joan Donovan, the director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard and an expert on how extremist groups manipulate the media.

In return the separatists would be granted greater autonomy.

Vladimir Lukin said he hoped the "voluntary act" by the separatists would be reciprocated by Kiev, adding: "I would very much like military actions to end".

Mr Lavrov said EU and US mediation were not needed, but warned Kiev that continuing military operations against the separatists would be a "colossal mistake".

The students were furious that a woman they considered a separatist would be given a platform to speak.

"If such a large amount of weapons fell into hands of separatists, it would be a catastrophe," said Alexei Melnik, a defence analyst at the Razumkov centre in Kiev.

An independent Scotland, separatists argued, would be far better off and far richer than it would as a small part of a United Kingdom.

In the sixth point, both sides agreed that the status of the contested separatist regions would be pursued the future.

Or he could resign and call elections: a resounding victory for separatist parties would be hard for the national government to ignore.

And he conceded that the cooperation of Russia — which Kiev and the West have accused of fomenting the separatist rebellion — would be crucial to ending the violence.