Irina Paliashvili: Ukrainians want very simple things
A protester holds a smoke bomb during a demonstration outside the President Administration against the Sept. 16 adoption of laws that give self-rule powers to some some territories in the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists in Kyiv on Sept. 17.
Sept. 16, 2014 was a dramatic day in Ukraine's history: the Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) in a closed, secret vote adopts the Law on special status of Donetsk and Luhansk separatist regions, providing for local self-rule and amnesty to the separatists-terrorists, who in turn are not amused and respond with the announcement that they have created the joint army of "Novorossiya" (Putin's term meaning "NewRussia"), while Russia, which lobbied for everything the new Law provides for, welcomes it with the Russian Defense Minister announcing that Russia must deploy a "full-fledged and self-sufficient" army in the Crimean direction.
