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ROSTOV-ON-DON -- If hundreds of thousands of refugees from Eastern Ukraine's Donbas are about to descend on the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, you can't tell from looking.

After authorities in the breakaway Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics on Friday ordered the evacuation of the elderly, women and children amid unsubstantiated claims that a Ukrainian attack is imminent, Rostov -- the closest major Russian city to the region -- should in theory be gearing up for an influx of people.

But despite local authorities declaring a state of emergency in Rostov, when The Moscow Times visited the southern city on Saturday, there was little evidence of war fever or refugees. 

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