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(PONARS Policy Memo) In the late spring of 2014, Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) militants seized Mariupol and Kramatorsk, but they were soon recaptured by the Ukrainian army. Both cities are…

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The Donbass War: Outbreak and Deadlock

May 8, 2017
Kimitaka Matsuzato

(Demokratizatsiya) Between 1997 and 2004, the Party of Regions (POR) became the dominant party in Eastern Ukraine by channeling social discontent to regionalist protests and grabbing the potentially pro-Communist vote. Yet,…

Political Turmoil in the Northwestern Black Sea Rim: Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria

July 23, 2012
Kimitaka Matsuzato

We are witnessing the third wave of constitutional readjustment after the collapse of communism in post-Soviet Eurasia. Following the establishment of founding constitutional regimes in the early 1990s, the second…

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