@pkamaev @ThaddeusCarpen2 @AniaKoniec @UelandJohn @TimothyDSnyder @mattschmidtphd Yes crime bosses are bad. Why is that controversial They paid the go

@pkamaev @ThaddeusCarpen2 @AniaKoniec @UelandJohn @TimothyDSnyder @mattschmidtphd Yes crime bosses are bad. Why is that controversial

They paid the gopniki. to join their separatist forces.

Now Akhmetov was fighting more for his own control and probably wanted neither side to win

Aleksandr Yefremo who ran the illegal mines recruited many at district level