Pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine demand Crimean-style referendum - World Socialist Web Site
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Pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine demand Crimean-style referendum
By Johannes Stern
8 April 2014
Tensions between the Western-backed interim government in Kiev and the eastern parts of Ukraine with close economic and linguistic ties to Russia are escalating, posing the threat not only of civil war in Ukraine, but of military conflict between the imperialist powers and Russia.