Kiev woos oligarchs, bolstering east against Putin


  • World
  • Monday, 24 Mar 2014

People hold a huge flag depicting multiple flag colours during an anti-war rally at Independence Square in Kiev March 23, 2014. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Even as a new alarm sounds about it massing troops on the Ukrainian border, Russia may have missed its chance to exploit unrest in the Russian-speaking east to seize Ukraine's industrial heartland in the way it took Crimea.

A week after violence involving pro-Moscow separatists left three people dead in border cities, the outlines of a consensus have emerged between the new leaders in Kiev and the eastern business oligarchs allied to ousted president Viktor Yanukovich.

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