Coming winter and threat of renewed fighting hang over Donetsk and Luhansk after rushed electionsNew metallic letters have already been hung above the entrance of what was once the Ukraine tax service headquarters in Donetsk, spelling out: Taxes and Revenues Ministry of the Donetsk Peoples Republic. A sign on one of the large wooden doors reminds visitors to turn in weapons upon entry.Inside, Svetlana Mikhailishina, a former private tax consultant who now directs the registration department, has already put more than 2,000 entrepreneurs and 1,000 companies on the tax rolls of the self-declared pro-Russian republic in the month since she …read more
Source: The Guardian
