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By contrast, the Donetsk Republic formulates its agenda from below,
literally on the run, in response to the public mood and the course of
events. Strictly speaking this republic is not even a state—rather, it
amounts to a coalition of diverse communities, most of them
self-organised. In essence, it is the perfect embodiment of the
anarchist concept of the revolutionary order.
--Boris Kagarlitsky
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When the rebellion erupted in eastern Ukraine last year, the Cossacks,
the whip-wielding, onetime horsemen of the southern Russian steppes,
sent hundreds of young men as volunteers to fight alongside the rebels.
Renowned warriors, as well as darlings of the Putin-era Kremlin, they
lent a steely organization to the often ragtag separatist forces.
As the fighting died down, the Cossacks established at least de facto
control over three eastern Ukrainian towns which they claimed as
“Cossack Republics” and subjected to harsh, traditional punishments,
like public horsewhippings for petty criminals.
At the peak of their success last year, the republics run by Mr.
Mozgovoi and two other Cossack commanders, or atamans, Nikolai I.
Kozitsyn and Pavel L. Dryomov, claimed to control 80 percent of the
Luhansk region, including major towns, strategic roads and border
crossings to Russia. They were closer than ever before to realizing a
long-held dream of having an independent Cossack state.
full:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/europe/cossacks-face-reprisals-as-rebel-groups-clash-in-eastern-ukraine.html
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