Одесская трагедия: кровавый след “Русской весны“ / The Odessa tragedy: bloody trail of “russian spring“

Late winter and early spring of 2014 events in Odessa were identical to the events in Donetsk and Lugansk regions: “Russian marshes” and meetings beneath Russian flags with demands to protect from “Kiev junta” and attempts to establish “Odessa people’s republic”. It ended up with a war in Donbass. Odessa is peaceful still. Kremlin’s project called “Russian Spring” aimed to exclude 8 south-eastern regions of Ukraine from the rest of the country, had failed. Why has it happened? And what happened on 2nd of Ma