Huge Pro-Ukrainian Rallies in Donbas

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About 1000 people, including many students in Luhansk.

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The difference between the protests is obvious to anyone who looks. Ukrainian protests – students, old people, professionals. They are vigils, prayers, and non-confrontational. Russian protests – violent, confrontational, military aged men, and pensioners who conflate nostalgia for their youth with nostalgia for the Soviet Union.