In War: Stories from Ukraine

• The first person who died would be named; the rest are just numbers.
• What is outside of Kiev? What is out of the news?
• Similarities with Eastern Croatia (Balkan war)
  • Putin tried to create an empire of Russia
• Difference: not ethnic conflict
  • identies are fluid in Eastern Ukraine
• People were angry after 24 years of independence
  • small elites
  • pro-European vs. People in the east: feeling ripped-off
• Prejudices in Ukraine (West vs. East)
• Corporations (people have black and white prejudices)
• Elements of a civil war (controversial)
  • People in the east didn’t think so; they thought it would be like Crimea
• Odessa fire
• Donetsk: civilians were dying
• The example of Moldova
• Putin
• Civil Society: initiatives