Sunday, 29 March 2015

Residents in Eastern Ukraine City Rally Against Separatism

nytimes.com - DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — Residents of this city held what they called a “unity rally” on Saturday meant to help mend a rift between President Petro O. Poroshenko and the regional governor he fired and ease worries that Ukraine, on top of everything else, is also now at risk of unraveling into privately ruled fiefs.

The country seemed to be teetering in that direction last week, when Mr. Poroshenko dismissed Igor V. Kolomoisky, the billionaire governor of Dnepropetrovsk, an important industrial region in the east, apparently for sending armed loyalists to Kiev, the capital, to occupy the offices of two state-owned energy companies that are central to a business dispute.

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