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Zita Kelderari, a Ukrainian gypsy, greets the sun while standing outside her apartment in Havana September 4, 2007. The Flamenco singer fell for a Cuban helicopter pilot in Kiev in 1985 and sailed to Cuba on a Soviet freighter loaded with Yugoslavian butter. When he defected to the United States a few years ago, she was left penniless in Cuba. About 1,300 women from Russia and former Soviet republics Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan still live in Cuba, scraping a living as best they can. To match feature CUBA-RUSSIA/WOMEN
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