: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Donetsk becomes a ghost town as fearful residents flee conflict


Three months into crisis, businesses have closed, ATMs have run out of cash, and flowers are a guilty pleasureIt was like one of the illicit apartment concerts from Soviet days, only with better cocktails. Dozens of young people packed into a basement room, singing along to classic Russian and Ukrainian tunes strummed out by a rotating cast of guitarists.They had gathered to say goodbye to Izba Chitalnya (“village reading room”), Donetsk’s hippest cafe-bar, which was closing due to poor business as a result of the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. When they belted out the first lines of the beloved …read more

Source: The Guardian

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