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08 Mar 2014

The Telegraph’s Damien McElroy explained why so many had gathered to express their anger at the new leaders of Ukraine:

“The people here have rallied because their leader Pavel Gubarev, who declared himself the people’s governor during the week, has been arrested and taken to Kiev.

“They want him released, they call him a political prisoner and they say that their rights are being abused by the revolutionaries who have taken over the government”

The protests in industrial cities, such as Donetsk, that rely on Russia for trade and whose cultural roots lie closer to Moscow than Kiev came as Kremlin-backed troops tightened their grip on Ukraine’s flashpoint peninsula of Crimea.

The predominantly Russian-speaking southern and eastern regions of the Ukraine have been in upheaval since three months of deadly protests brought new pro-European leaders to power in Kiev whom they view with disdain and mistrust.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10684981/Thousands-gather-for-pro-Russian-rally-in-Donetsk.html

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Pavel Gubarev the socialist fringe person who declared himself governor without an election? I thought only the Ukrainians were "fascists"?

From his Wikipedia profile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Gubarev

Pavel Yurevich Gubarev (Russian: Павел Юрьевич Губарев, born 10 February 1983) is a pro-Russian political figure in Ukraine. Though not a player in local politics, Gubarev was allegedly "elected" the "People's Governor" of the Donetsk Region at the Regional Assembly on 3 March 2014 after pro-Russian protesters seized the building. Gubarev was later arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on 6 March for advocating separatism and illegal seizure of power. He faces up to ten years in prison.[1] Biography[edit]

Gubarev is a graduate of history department of the Donetsk National University. He worked as an advertising executive at a local firm in Donetsk.

He was a member of the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, a pro-Russian, leftist party based in the southeast of the country.[1] According to an unnamed acquaintance, Gubarev "believes in unity for the Slavic people, it's an issue he has thought about a lot".[1]

Since the beginning of the 2014 Crimean crisis, Gubarev has led pro-Russian protesters who blockaded and occupied the Donetsk Regional Administration building.

During a press-conference with journalists on March 6, 2014 his main message as a self-proclaimed governor was: referendum on the territorial status of Donetsk Oblast and non-recognition of the Kiev authorities and the central government's appointed governor, oligarch Serhiy Taruta.[2] On March 6, 2014, Gubarev was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine.[3] Following his arrest, Gubarev was reportedly taken to Kiev for detention.[4]

The location of the eastern city of Donetsk:

Since Februry 23d bloody coup d'état in Kiev and the installement of the illegitimate "president and government" composed solely of right-wing and nationalistic Western Ukrainians, the Eastern Ukraina regions, Russophiles and Russophones (more than 80% of the population speak Russian), who massively voted for Yanukovich in 2010, consider themselves in danger from an anti-Russian central regime, which the FIRST decision was to ban Russian as official regional language. This decision put Eastern Ukraine on fire. Dozens of thousands descended in the streets, demonstrating their attachment to their language and historical ties with Russia, which remains their main economic partner.

When Vitali Klitschko, the boxer to be presidential candidate, tried to go and speak in Donetsk, he was chased away by the demonstrators.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10686434/Ukraine-crisis-Vitali-Klitschko-kept-away-from-Donetsk-by-pro-Russian-protesters.html

Sergey A. Taruta, a whealty oligarch, appointed new governor by the Kiev Maidan-gubmint, ordered the police to squash pro-Russia rallies. So far, he hasn't succeded...