Do·nets'k

or Do·netsk (də-nĕtsk′, dŭ-nyĕts′)

A city of eastern Ukraine east-southeast of Kiev. Founded c. 1870, it is the leading industrial center of the region.

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(106) For example, a student from Kharkiv and a teacher from Donets'k oblast were both tried in court for condemning the invasion in private conversations, while the KGB in Odesa discovered "counterrevolutionary" leaflets that called for the withdrawal of the Soviet army from Hungary.

De-stalinization and Soviet patriotism: Ukrainian reactions to East European unrest in 1956

The 16 young journalists with whom we worked were from a variety of cities in the Ukraine (L'viv, Kiev, Donets'k, Poltava and Chernivtsi).

Getting Ukrainian journalists to ask ordinary people questions

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