DNIPROPETROVSK -- When skirmishes began in this corner of eastern Ukraine earlier this year, Yuriy Bereza decided to use "direct action" (read fists and clubs), threats and incentives to ensure this fourth largest city - and a mainly Russian-speaking one - didn't slide into rebel hands as Donetsk and Luhansk had done. Bereza, a veteran of the Orange Revolution of mass protests against Russian backed governments, joined forces with a group of local businessmen, including billionaire oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, to make sure this city stayed on the Ukrainian side of the political divide.
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Ukrainian servicemen walk past an armored personnel carrier (APC) in the village of Peski, Donetsk region, controlled by Ukrainian forces, on Nov. 19, 2014.
