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Economic blockade of Ukrainian rebel regions inflicts mass suffering
By David Levine
26 November 2014
During the first half of November, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a series of executive orders that create the equivalent of an economic blockade of rebel-controlled territories in eastern Ukraine.
The orders sever financial ties between the territories of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and the rest of Ukraine, and thereby cut them off from much of the rest of the world as well. All Ukrainian banks and government institutions are to cease functioning in the territories by December 1. The employees of these institutions have been told to “evacuate” to Kiev-controlled areas, to which their positions are supposedly being transferred. Prison inmates are also to be transferred to facilities elsewhere or amnestied.