Drive four hours east from the chaos and kidnaps of Slovyansk — so far east that a tossed stone will actually land in Russia proper — and you will find Ukraine’s rural borderlands have a different story to tell.
Toronto Star: Tension, paranoia spread to Ukraine’s border with Russia
the people of Kolesnykivka, Luhanst Oblast, a hamlet of few than 500 people living hard on the border, identify overwhelmingly with their Russian neighbours.
