A Russian sailor died of his injuries after being beaten by "hooligans". After an interview with the widow, the announcer reported that the Ukrainian police arrested three construction workers from Western Ukraine, the Western Ukraine being the source of all the ills in Ukraine because of alleged extreme Ukrainian nationalism, as evidenced by this map of what Ukraine should look like from a Russian perspective:
The title of the blog post I pulled this from is "a poisonous territory".
And these are the types of incidents that have the potential to grow out of control. I was immediately reminded, for some reason, of an incident in the mid-80s when a Serb man was beaten to death by his Albanian neighbor in a dispute in Kosovo. Word circulated in the Serb community that the man was horribly mutilated and abused, including having a broken beer bottle stuffed into his rectum. The rest is history...
The next step to look out for: ethnic Russians receiving Russian Federation passports. Start to worry if you see that...
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If that map reflects Russian perspective, then why it is in Ukrainian?
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