The Knights of New Russia Russian support for the separatists in eastern Ukraine does not all come directly from the Kremlin. The rebellion there may be stoked, and armed, by Vladimir Putin - but it has also become a personal cause for young Russian volunteers recruited by a variety of nationalist and far-right groups. Many say they are motivated by their Orthodox faith - and their dream to restore Novorossiya, or New Russia, the territory which encompassed eastern Ukraine under the Tsarist Empire. Passionate members of re-enactment societies, they have spent their weekends reliving Russias historic battles. But now they are fighting - and sometimes dying - for real, in what they see as a test of their own, and Russias manhood. BBC World News
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 08:01:42 +0000
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