Декодировать строку, возвращаемую python-mssql

v = u'\xc2\xe5\xf2\xe5\xf0\xe0\xed \xe1\xee\xe5\xe2\xfb\xf5 \xe4\xe5\xe9\xf1\xf2\xe2\xe8\xe9 ...'
print v.encode('UTF-8')
print v.encode('UTF-8').decode('UTF-8').encode('cp1251')

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 11, in <module>
    print v.encode('UTF-8').decode('UTF-8').encode('cp1251')
  File "C:\Python27\lib\encodings\cp1251.py", line 12, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_table)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 0-6: character maps to <undefined>

>>> s = u'\xc2\xe5\xf2\xe5\xf0\xe0\xed \xe1\xee\xe5\xe2\xfb\xf5 \xe4\xe5\xe9\xf1\xf2\xe2\xe8\xe9 ...'
>>> print s.encode('cp1252').decode('cp1251')
Ветеран боевых действий ...

  s = v1.encode("cp1252").decode("cp1251").encode("cp1251")
  f_.write("%s\n" % s)