A rivalry between two groups of regional elites over trade and industry underlies much of Ukraine's post-communist political history. While political and economic elites from Dnepropetrovsk have taken control of the.country's politics, their rivals from the Donbas region have been falling prey to gangland-style murders by OLEG VARFOLOMEYEV THE ASSASSINATION OF businessman and politician Yevhen […]

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