Russia's War Against Ukraine
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David Patrikarakos: Ukraine’s pro-Putin rebels prepare for a last stand
Ukraine Luhansk Pro-Russian militants stand guard at a checkpoint on the road between Lugansk and Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on July 9, 2014.
DONETSK, Ukraine - They call it the "authority bra": The push-up undergament worn by a certain type of female official in the more Soviet parts of Eastern Europe is not about sex but power - and it works. (Try standing up to officialdom with that amount of cleavage brandished at you.) It’s a popular look in Donetsk and was worn like a flak jacket by the formidable ticket collector who ushered me off the train at the central station of city waiting for a siege. Kyiv was a world away.
