The campaign "Invisible voters", Kyiv, March 20, 2018. Source: Civic Holding Group "Vplyv".
It is 11 May 2014. Local residents in Dobropillya, a town in Donetsk region, are crowding round the only organised “polling station” on the main square – they have come to vote for “Self-determination for the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic’”. No one is paying any attention to a small tent with Ukrainian insignia across the road. Here, members of the local self-defence militia (loyal to the Kyiv government) are holding a “referendum” on a merger between Dobropillya and its neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region. In Dnipropetrovsk, oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, the region’s current governor, has taken on the task of defending his native region against the “Russian Spring”.
