Blog #9 Donetsk

Summery

This week in the Ukraine city of Donetsk protests stormed a government building with Molotov cocktails, and transformed it what they call “The People’s Republic of Donetsk”.  They have clumsily built walls, a lack of leader or concrete plan, but the have a definite goal in mind. They want a referendum on secession from Ukraine to join Russia. The protesters have barricade themselves inside the building, they have insisted that they are peaceful, but are prepared to fight if Ukraine’s military steps in. Ukraine’s acting president has said that those who have seized the build will be trialed and prosecuted as terrorist. Russia has warned Ukraine of civil war if Ukraine uses force to stop the eastern revolts.  Donetsk is also the hometown of the ousted former Ukraine President Yankovych, whose pro-Russian government was thrown out in the February revolt.

Analysis

The revolt is spreading. The “success” in Crimea has lead to other eastern Ukraine cities revolting against the Ukraine government. Donetsk is now the new “Crimea”. They want to join Russia. The protesters stormed a building and our now barricaded inside, calling for the cities secession from Ukraine. They want to join Russia. I’m going to ask the obvious, but why not just move to Russia? When most don’t like what is going on in their place of residence they move. Why aren’t eastern Ukraine’s immigrating to Russia? There is something missing here. It would be a whole lot simpler to just move instead of revolting and seceding from Ukraine, so why aren’t they? 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/08/world/europe/ukraine-donetsk-protesters-walsh/index.html?iid=article_sidebar