It's kind of interesting how they are proclaiming "people's republics" and "people's mayors".
It echoes a bit of you-know-what, doesn't it?

I can't help admiring the guts of people to pull something like this off. The revolution in Kiev too, even if they got help from abroad.
If people in Western Europe got seriously oppressed, nobody would quite know what to do, and probably end up doing nothing or just rallying around on the street and getting shot at with water cannons and dum-dum bullets, or getting arrested.

But lots of people in the ex USSR have the ideology down, don't they - and they know the recipe to raise up, get organised and do something. Many of them are risking everything. It's brave.

Frankly we could learn a lot... It's probably a matter of time until most Western European countries are nothing but a parody of democracy. How many revolutions have Ukrainians been through in their lifetimes by now...

Any way I hope it doesn't turn into some kind of nasty "dictatorship of the pro.... Russians".
They need to find out the truth about what happened to Rybak and the others, quickly.