"beatings/vandalism to discriminate Maidan"
You have to try really hard to discredit this (opposition in action):
http://votarea.com/uploads/posts/2013-12/1385948933_1328475.... http://img12.nnm.me/e/c/c/b/7/2dfacaf7de32a36db9cf7794f86.jp...
You have to try really hard to discredit this (opposition in action):
http://votarea.com/uploads/posts/2013-12/1385948933_1328475.... http://img12.nnm.me/e/c/c/b/7/2dfacaf7de32a36db9cf7794f86.jp...
The titushki you mentioned are not shamed just because they're from Eastern Ukraine, but of what they did in Kiev for government money (beatings/vandalism to discriminate Maidan).
So I have to admit that there are some deep cultural differences, indeed. But when I try to imagine two Ukraines, there are so many questions (where to put the border - in any place it would tear apart close regions, there's no clear border, it's a huge gradual gradient from West to East) that I see no feasible answer.