As if the similarities between Yugoslavia and Ukraine weren’t strong enough already, Igor Girkin (now calling himself Igor Strelkov), the head of the self-declared Donetsk Republic, recently drew another sinister parallel. If Putin "betrays Novorossia" - the Russian imperial term for the Black Sea region - he might end up like Milošević, a defeated figure, internationally shunned.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
New Republic: Putin is behaving in Ukraine like Milosevic did in Serbia
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow, on June 17, 2014.
