Economic Crisis Sweeps Eastern Ukraine (Published 2009)

A man jogs near the Kirov Metallurgical Factory in Makeevka in southeastern Ukraine. Credit...Joseph Sywenkyj for the International Herald Tribune “I look with pride at Russia,” said Mr. Yeryomin, who lived in Russia as a child and counts himself among the 40 percent of inhabitants of the Donetsk region who are considered ethnically Russian. “We should cut Ukraine in two, and give half to Poland a