Four years have passed since the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics formed in eastern Ukraine. By Aug. 2014, the representatives of the so-called “republics”, whose appointments were announced on the premises of the Donetsk and Luhansk regional administrations, established a foothold in the main industrial centers of the two regions. Although they still did not hold any real power at that point. Ukrainian regional administrations and municipalities sped up routine affairs. For example, in Aug. 2014, under an artillery cannon, the Donetsk mayor’s office ceremoniously opened bicycle paths promised years earlier for the Euro-2012 football cup.
Four years have passed since the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics formed in eastern Ukraine.
