DONETSK, Ukraine - Early in the separatist struggle for eastern Ukraine, a leading Russian nationalist, Aleksandr G. Dugin, painted a glowing portrait of what the newly captured territories, referred to in Russia as Novorossiya, would become.
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A woman holds a poster with the portrait of Igor Strelkov, the top military commander of the self-proclaimed \"Donetsk People's Republic\" and with the slogan \"Our name is Strelkov\" during a rally in support of the self-proclaimed \"People's Republics of Donbass and Luhansk\", in Moscow on August 2, 2014.
