It's hard to find a person who would dream of buying a bunch of dirty rags or a purchaser who would like to get a car that was in five crashes, with a stolen engine and a stained saloon. The Donbass is brought to such a state that it is no longer a tidbit for anyone, but is only a subsidized terrible load, to contain and restore which, practically at the moment, there is no sense. If there are still some companies of terrorists, then consider that this region in general can be offered as a gift, say, Zimbabwe. And she will not take it either, writes the Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov on the Observer.

Here it is necessary to proceed not from the fact that Russia likes to capture, but she likes to capture. But Russia of the 21st century already understands that it makes sense to seize and what does not. The fact of the matter is that if someone gave Putin a magic wand with which he could return the Donbas situation back, then I have no doubt that he would have used it.

Russia is shamefully stuck in this story. This story is inglorious, dirty and destructive for Putin's image. And this destruction has already begun.

Understand, it is impossible to create a city of the sun by the hands of criminals.

You can not create some high bright idea, even crazy, even national, - it can not be created by the hands of bastards. And there are no other frames. And what happened - it turned out monstrously and nobody needs.

What will happen next? I think it's even worse than in Transnistria. Transnistria is a very Soviet region in which this Sovietness has long been the pivot. But we see how this small, miserable, banana republic, with plastic tokens for food and with savage laws, turned out to be unrecognized and useless to anyone.