A colorful reception for Ukraine’s rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko at a formal inauguration ceremony in Donetsk. Zakharchenko, once an electrician, now heads the Donetsk People’s Republic —a breakaway republic in Ukraine’s pro-Russia rebel region—after an election widely condemned as illegal by the EU, the U.S. and the pro-western Ukrainian government of President Petro Poroshenko. Russia howewever, recognises the result, and Zakharchenko says he is ready to hold talks with Kiev. …read more
Source: The Boston Globe
