Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine were ‘nobodies’ — until now
By Griff Witte, WashPost, Updated: Wednesday, April 30, 6:01 AM
DONETSK, Ukraine — Before he became leader of the Donetsk People's Republic — a renegade regime that has spread chaos and fear across eastern Ukraine — Denis Pushilin sold shares in a Russian pyramid scheme.
His comrade-in-arms, the hostage-taking "people's mayor" of Slovyansk, operated a small soap factory.
Today the two men threaten to sink this region into anarchy with their violence-fueled quest for autonomy from the pro-Western government in Kiev.
But as recently as a month ago, the leaders of the People's Republic were unknown to just about everyone in Donetsk, even on the fringe that separatist politics normally inhabit in this once-tranquil industrial region.
(More here.)
DONETSK, Ukraine — Before he became leader of the Donetsk People's Republic — a renegade regime that has spread chaos and fear across eastern Ukraine — Denis Pushilin sold shares in a Russian pyramid scheme.
His comrade-in-arms, the hostage-taking "people's mayor" of Slovyansk, operated a small soap factory.
Today the two men threaten to sink this region into anarchy with their violence-fueled quest for autonomy from the pro-Western government in Kiev.
But as recently as a month ago, the leaders of the People's Republic were unknown to just about everyone in Donetsk, even on the fringe that separatist politics normally inhabit in this once-tranquil industrial region.
(More here.)
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