STAKHANOV, Ukraine — On a grim, rain-soaked morning in this former industrial boomtown, a small crowd of working-class locals gathers under a hulking statue of Vladimir Lenin to air its grievances. “The people in power today aren’t taking even the smallest steps toward calming tensions in our society,” says 51-year-old Oleksandr Kashparenko, a mustachioed, barrel-chested utilities worker. “They just don’t hear us.” Read more here.
Global Post: As Kyiv looks west, Ukraine’s east watches in dismay
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