The four observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have been freed and are en route to the eastern city of Donetsk. Lavrov (Russian Foreign Minister) acknowledged that Russia has some leverage with the 'rebels' in Eastern Ukraine. He implied Russia influenced the release of the four observers. However he claimed that Moscow's influence is limited: 'There are reasons to believe that they hear us on other aspects of Russian position regarding the crisis in Ukraine, but that doesn't mean that they immediately move to heed our calls.'
Twelve weeks of unrest in Ukraine have claimed more than 440 lives and displaced thousands of people, especially in eastern and southern regions.
A Ukrainian news site (Russian language), Gordonua, has published information about the leaders of the separatist movements in Donetsk and Luhansk. As we have managed to find out, four out of thirteen are citizens of Russia, eight of them are Ukrainians, and one of them possibly has both passports. Among those who placed themselves as the leadership of Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics,” there are those that don’t have university diplomas. Some of them rooted for the MMM financial pyramid, some distributed marijuana, another sold toilet cleaning products. Among today’s “voices of Donetsk” there are former convicts, successful political technologists, there are machinators that say they are Ph.D. candidates. It should be noted that the list also includes a person who has been engaging in separatist activity in the east for almost 10 years. Why for so long and why so successfully, as we can see now, is a question for the Ukrainian law enforcement.
Twelve weeks of unrest in Ukraine have claimed more than 440 lives and displaced thousands of people, especially in eastern and southern regions.
A Ukrainian news site (Russian language), Gordonua, has published information about the leaders of the separatist movements in Donetsk and Luhansk. As we have managed to find out, four out of thirteen are citizens of Russia, eight of them are Ukrainians, and one of them possibly has both passports. Among those who placed themselves as the leadership of Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics,” there are those that don’t have university diplomas. Some of them rooted for the MMM financial pyramid, some distributed marijuana, another sold toilet cleaning products. Among today’s “voices of Donetsk” there are former convicts, successful political technologists, there are machinators that say they are Ph.D. candidates. It should be noted that the list also includes a person who has been engaging in separatist activity in the east for almost 10 years. Why for so long and why so successfully, as we can see now, is a question for the Ukrainian law enforcement.
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