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As if the similarities between Yugoslavia and Ukraine weren’t strong enough already, Igor Girkin (now calling himself Igor Strelkov), the head of the self-declared Donetsk Republic, recently drew another sinister parallel. If Putin "betrays Novorossia" - the Russian imperial term for the Black Sea region - he might end up like Milošević, a defeated figure, internationally shunned.

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