Just to help you guide yourself among a mountain of articles that are appearing on the Donbass Region in Ukraine, here is a little tip: if the report you are reading doesn’t begin and end with the word “Akhmetov,” what you are reading is a bunch of crap by some idiot who has no idea what is really going on and uses Wikipedia to get informed.
Akhmetov is a crime boss in Donbass who has an “army” of bandits of his own. These bandits have been terorrizing the population of the region for over 18 years. The bandit wars of the 1990s never ended in Donbass. This is why there was never any business or any attempts to develop normal capitalist and democratic functioning in the region.
Akhmetov owns the police and the district attorney’s office. His bandits are the ones who are fighting in this war today against the regular citizens, especially the miners and the factory workers. Akhmetov is waging the war on direct orders from Moscow. He is part of a greater mafia organization and his bosses are other bandits. Right before the current disturbances in Donbass started, Akhmetov traveled to Moscow. After he came back, “pro-Russian uprisings” began.
So if you want to know about Donbass, find out about Akhmetov.
Clarissa's Blog 
Thank you for the information. I left the place at the end of the 90ies, and never heard Akhmetov’s name before.
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