Ukraine Separatist Republics Won’t Survive On Their Own
The Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics are trying to legitimize themselves, but how they will support millions of inhabitants is unclear.
The Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics are trying to legitimize themselves, but how they will support millions of inhabitants is unclear.
Pro-Russian activists burn uniforms outside the prosecutor’s office in Donetsk May 1, 2014. (Interfax-Ukraine)
by Devin Ackles, Hromadske International
produced by Maxim Eristavi, Randy R. Potts
What You Need to Know:
✓ Separatist forces carried out local elections in violation of the Minsk peace deal on November 2;
✓ The elections are an attempt to legitimize the breakaway states;
✓The Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic are two separate entities with varying levels of internal cohesion;
✓Both republics have few obvious functional institutions to run a government;
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