The one-year-old Minsk peace process is bogged down and artillery duels are picking up. But the leadership of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), the larger of eastern Ukraine’s two separatist statelets, is immersed in other struggles. Top leaders are fighting to break the political and economic power of one of their own: Alexander Khodakovsky, a senior DNR security official and founder of one of the separatists’ most powerful armed units, Vostok. By Paul Quinn-Judge for the INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP. …read more
Source: Daily Maverick
