Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Vladimir Socor: The question of political power in Ukraine’s east
Young people walk near a barricade outside the regional state building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, which was seized by pro-Russian separatists, on May 14, 2014. Ukraine's embattled leaders launched round-table talks today as part of a Western-backed push to prevent the country falling apart, vowing they would not bow to \"blackmail\" by pro-Russian rebels waging an insurgency in the east. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV
President Vladimir Putin and Russian diplomacy have recently invented the concept of “South-Eastern Ukraine” as a would-be political entity. Moscow promotes this idea as part of its project to dismantle the Ukrainian state through “federalization.
