Money for the Donbass
Lesson Brief
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While there are still some violations of the ceasefire agreement between the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian rebels, it appears that the focus of both sides is now moving towards the reconstruction and territorial delineations of eastern Ukraine. With so much industry and mining in the Donbass region, many speculate that Ukraine and Russia will slowly figure out a joint way of governing the region. According to Vadim Karasev, a Kiev-based political scientist and director of the Global Strategy Institute, all sides (Russia, Ukraine, and the oligarchs) need the Donbass to pacify and begin to work again.
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- to disarm, to catch off guard
- обезоружить
- presence
- присутствие
- division, sub-unit
- подразделение
- to produce, to work out
- вырабатывать/выработать
- to expand, to widen
- расширяться
- enterprise, business
- предприятие
- equipment
- оборудование
- creeping de-escalation
- ползучая деэскалация
- to abate, to calm down
- стихать
- to restore, to reconstruct
- восстанавливать/восстановить