DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — In eastern Ukraine, where the country’s pro-Russian insurgency has claimed thousands of lives, the region’s top university is a major victim of the bitterness and rifts the fighting has caused.
The conflict has not only split the university in half and forced many students and professors to quit, it also has affected everything from the school’s curriculum and the language of its instruction to its coat of arms and diplomas.
Even the name of the history department at the rebel-controlled Donetsk National University has been changed from the Ukrainian History Department to the Local and Regional History Department.
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Source: KXAN
