Ukraine’s future depends on the courage of the Eastern residents.
Vitaliy Portnikov
Translated by Yuliya Nesterenko
Edited by Isis Wisdom
Source: http://rus.newsru.ua/columnists/27jan2014/borba.html
Ukraine’s future depends on the courage of the Eastern residents.
What is happening around the regional administrations in the eastern parts of the country is tragic but an exact confirmation of along which lines Ukraine really is split. Not along the line of confrontation between West, Centre and East, no. But along the line of struggle between the authority and all the rest of the population.
When people ask me why mainly residents of the western and central regions stand on Maidan – by the way, in exactly these regions they managed to establish control over administration buildings without war – I recall one simple thing. The residents of the Centre and West – in addition to their own civic initiatives – have political representation in the form…
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