Many journalistic accounts — as well as the Kremlin’s propaganda machine — depict the Russian-speaking population in eastern Ukraine’s separatist Donbas region and the Crimea as an aggrieved ethnic minority clamoring for nothing more than greater autonomy and cultural and language rights. Seen in this light, Kiev and ethnic Ukrainians are the victimizers. The Donbas and its Russians are the victims. To put the conflict in American terms, Kiev is white America and the Russian-speaking regions are black America.
The analogy is completely false.
For starters, the Crimea has enjoyed the status of an autonomous republic since 1991. The province ran …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
