Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new physical and militarised border is under construction, fuelled by ideological and political divisions, and allegedly funded by the European Union.
The Daily Beast reports on a Ukraine government project to build a 2000-kilometre wall along its border with Russia —
that, theoretically at least, would keep Moscow out and secessionists in. The defences would include an actual steel wall, in addition to watchtowers, trenches for soldiers, and a barbed no-man’s land running contiguous to the countries’ massive shared border.
Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk calls the wall “the European Union …read more
Source: VoxEeurop
