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Pavlo Kazarin has shown how the death of ‘Motorola’ ended a myth about Russian volunteers in Donbass

“The murder of Arsen ‘Motorola’ Pavlov in Donetsk is not just a logical extension of intraspecific fight among Russia-backed separatists. It is also an end of a myth about ‘Russian volunteers’ in Donbass,” he wrote.

Description of reality always beats the reality itself. So what’s the difference, what he was really like – Arsen Pavlov, car washer from Komi Republic?

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