Att ultranationalisterna i Kiev löper amok - både på gatorna och inne i parlamentet - gör att en delning av Ukraina ter sig allt mer sannolik.
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More than 10,000 Yanukovich loyalists assembled at the Sports Palace of Ukraine’s second-largest city.
“3, 477 deputies from local councils in southeastern Ukraine have gathered. We have gathered here not to separate the country, but to save it,” regional Governor Mikhail Dobkin told the crowd.
The head of the Kharkov administration, Gennady Kernes, has called the public gathering “an attempt by qualified deputies from the east of the country to stabilize the situation.”
"My colleagues and I have been personally threatened. But today we have gathered to change the situation,” he said.
Russia sent several officials in the capacity of observers to the gathering, including the head of the Russian parliamentary commission on foreign affairs, Aleksey Pushkov, as well as Pushkov's counterpart in the Russian Federation Council, Mikhail Markelov. The upper chamber of parliament and several governors from eastern Russian regions were also in attendance.
“The decisions taken here are positive and concrete. What is important is that everything voiced here was implemented in the interests of the Ukrainian people and the entire Ukraine. What Ukraine needs now is common sense and a survival instinct,” Evgeny Savchenko, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said.
The creation of an alternative power base – if the new resolutions become the government's foundation – is a logical next step in a Ukraine that remains deeply divided.
The eastern and southern parts of the country, where about half of Ukraine's 45 million citizens live, uses Russian – not Ukrainian – as its everyday language, is more wary of ties with Europe, and votes for more left-wing parties than the west of the country. It is also the industrial base of the country, with legacy mining and metals industries left from Soviet times. All of the country’s sea ports are also in the region.
http://rt.com/news/thousands-gather-eastern-ukraine-252/
