Generational, according to Ioffe:
The younger a citizen of Donetsk, the more likely she is to view herself as Ukrainian. The older she is, the more likely she is to identify as Russian. And this is the crux of it all: What we are seeing today is the reverberation of what happened more than 20 years ago. This is still the long post-Soviet transition. And this is what it’s like to wander in the desert, waiting for the old generation to die off.
(Photo: A child cries as a Russian Cossack places a traditional Cossack hat on her outside of the Simferopol parliament building in Simferopol, Ukraine on March 6, 2014. The Russian Cossacks surrounded the building in a show of support for Russia. By Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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