Kernes, Hennadiy, 33, 35
Kharkiv region, 20, 31-33, 37, 55, 81, 86
Khartsyzk, 20, 86
Khmelovy, Anatoly, 73, 75, 90
Khorosheva, Stella, 62, 63, 64, 71, 75
Kiev, 13, 79, 90, 92, 99, 101, 103, 144; and Donbas, 17, 19, 20; the junta in, 17, 67; Maidan, 43
Kolomoyskiy, Igor, 13, 38, 42, 146
Kramatorsk, 20, 48, 80, 110, 112; resident in, 56
Krasnoarmijsk, 86, 98, 142; resident in, 99
Kremlin, 31-32, 83, 99, 110
Kurakhove, 50, 142, 149
Lagin, Roman, 97, 98
Lenin monuments, 10, 33, 35, 38, 57
Luhansk region, 11, 31, 42, 98, 100, 146, 189; insurgents in, 20, 55, 119, 160; Luhansk People’s Republic in, 89; and Yanukovych, 49-50
Maidan, the, 7, 23, 25, 134, 144; Presidential Administration building attacked during, 134, 150
Makiivka, 20, 86
Malaysian Airlines: flight number MH17, 153, 154, 158, 160, 161; resident at the train station, 163
Marinka, 125-26, 127, 130, 136
Mariupol, 20, 81, 86, 167, 172
Mariupol residents, 168, 171; Roman, 119, 175; Taras, 45-46
media, 11, 59, 63, 67, 80-81, 189; in Donetsk, 95, 98; events, 77, 160; Russian social, 121, 154; Ukrainian, 71, 83. See also Internet; journalists; Russian media; television
Mykolaiv region, 20, 31
National Guard of Ukraine, 55, 84, 86, 109, 145, 171, 178; guardsman, “Boost,” 143
National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), 79, 80
Novoazovsk, 86, 171, 172, 176
Novorossiya, 10, 32, 42, 91, 186, 189
NSDC. See National Security and Defense Council (NSDC)
Odessa, 19-20, 31, 42
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), 66, 67, 101, 161
Ostrovsky, Simon, 62, 63
Party of Regions, 43, 45, 47
photographers: in Artemivsk, 143; Crimean, 74; in Donetsk, 6; in Marinka, 129; Max Levin, 149; in Slovyansk, 84; a Slovak, 185. See also media; journalists
Poles, 26, 56, 59, 83, 120, 134, 185
police stations: in Horlivka, 20; in Kramatorsk, 48; in Krasnoarmijsk, 99; in Slovyansk, 59, 62, 107, 109
political parties: Batkivshchyna Party, 66; Radical Party, 95; Self-Reliance, 144. See also Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, the
polling commission, 94, 95, 97, 98, 101
polling stations, 90, 92, 94, 97, 100
Ponomarev, Vyacheslav, 63, 64, 69, 73, 75; at a press conference, 55-56, 62, 66-67, 72; self-proclaimed mayor of Slovyansk, 48, 61; vanished, 109
Poroshenko, Petro, 100, 105, 143, 180, 189
Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, the, 10, 32-33, 47
pro-Russian organizations, 40; Borotba, 33; Donetsk Republic, 10; Oplot, 81; Party of Regions, 32; Russian Bloc, 10. See also Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
pro-Russians, 10, 14, 17, 19, 27, 110, 131; and demonstrations, 20, 37, 45, 52, 81; and insurgents, 178, 182
pro-Ukrainian movement, 17, 45, 95, 146, 147, 172; and referendum, 98, 99, 100
Putin, Vladimir, 42-43, 49, 149-50, 162, 172, 175
radical organizations, 47, 147
referendum, 37, 49, 75, 81, 120, 126, 176; for independence, 11, 62; and press accreditation, 120; voting in, 89-92, 95, 97-100
Right Sector, 27, 67, 77, 79, 142, 147; Ponomarev and, 55, 62
Russian language, 11, 19, 189; speakers of, 43, 45
Russian media, 27-28, 61, 69, 71, 73, 81, 85, 98, 158; and propaganda, 26, 31-32, 38, 83, 92
Russian Orthodox Army, 131, 150
Russian Orthodoxy, 57, 131
Russian Spring, the, 11, 18, 31, 72, 99; in Dnipropetrovsk, 20; in Donetsk, 17; support of, 35, 52, 79, 131; website, 162, 189
Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), 59, 66-67, 74, 83, 107, 109, 150
separatists, 20, 40, 42, 98, 99, 149, 161; at checkpoints, 67, 69, 71, 76, 130; Cimmerian and his son, 27, 28, 133-34, 135; in Donetsk, 6, 116, 120; and plane crash, 154, 161-62; in Slovyansk, 23, 61, 77; sympathizers with the, 11, 13
Slovyansk, 7, 20, 23, 48, 56, 63, 109; “liberated,” 80, 85-86, 110; October Revolution Square in, 57, 59, 61; Roma households, in, 73-74; Russian flags in, 23, 59, 61; water problems in, 105, 107
SSU. See Security Service of Ukraine (SSU)
Sviatohirsk, 57, 83
Taruta, Serhiy, 11, 171
television, 26, 84, 158, 167, 193
Torez, 153, 163
Turchynov, Oleksandr, 45, 80
Twitter: Borodai on, 154; DPR Press Service on, 168
Ukraine: eastern, 43, 59, 80, 91, 145; southeastern, 10, 31, 42; western Ukraine, 62
Ukrainian flags, 10, 38, 40, 59; in Donetsk, 95; in Khrestishche village, 76; near Kramatorsk, 110; in Mariupol, 172; in Sviatohirsk, 83
Ukrainian forces, 6, 14, 23, 76, 77, 80, 87, 105; in Donetsk, 142; in Kramatorsk, 112; in Novoazovsk, 171; in Slovyansk, 84
Ukrainian media, 71, 83
Ukrainian National Guard. See National Guard of Ukraine
Union of Soviet Officers, 37-38, 40
Vesele (Cheerful), 3, 178
veterans. See World War II veterans
Victory over Fascism Day, 32, 33
Vladimirovich, Vladimir, 55-56
volunteer battalion Donbas, 40, 42, 133, 142-43, 147, 149; “Asker,” 146; Ilya Bohdanov, 149; “Iron Man,” 145; “Pastor,” 142, 145; Semen Semenchenko, 17, 19, 133, 143, 145
volunteer battalions: Azov, 147, 171; battalion Shakhtarsk, 171; Dnipro-1, 40, 171; Kiev-1, 109; Kiev-2, 109. See also Christian Battalion of Saint Mary; volunteer battalion Donbas; Vostok
Vostok, 137, 162
water problems: in Donetsk, 118, 180; in Kramatorsk, 112; in Slovyansk, 105, 107
World War II veterans, 32, 33
Yanukovych, Viktor, 9, 25, 43, 49, 51, 57, 90
Yenakiieve, 49, 81
Zaporozhia region, 20, 31
Zhadan, Serhiy, 33, 35
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