On May 25, the presidential election will be held in Ukraine. There is no intrigue, the favorite is known, but the fate of the country depends on the president of a completely different country Click to increase the picture “Wait, I take a picture with the future president,” a friend acquired Petro Poroshenko and quickly made a frame with an outstretched hand.

Which of the inhabitants of Donbass knows President Putin better than anyone else? "Quiet American" from Gorlovka will give faults to politicians and oligarchs Vladimir Renzin in his apartment in Gorlovka. April, 2014 /Photo: Leonid Ragozin "What would you like to convey to Putin?" At first, the warned, pro -Russian activists, who surrounded journalists in the square in front of the City Council in Gorlovka, a mining city 60 km from Donetsk, blurred in a smile.

72 years ago, Crimean Tatars were declared an enemy of Soviet power and were thrown out of their houses, where their ancestors lived for centuries “We do not know another country where a person breathes so freely,” Crimean Tatar youth sang, as their generation sang throughout the country. Until I ended up in camps and links. Photo of 1939–1940 /photo: from the author's archive ... April 1944. The Red Army liberates Crimea from the Nazis.

Now, I did not think that in the twenty -first century I would watch with my own eyes what I saw only in the cinema about civilian. The Donetsk Republic, clashes under a skew, incomprehensible flags, villages that are divided into “ours” and “not ours”, the robbery of the population, peasants with icons against the war ... The feeling of falling into “elusive avengers” is almost complete. Sur.