Valdai Club

The first thing to appear in the limelight is the information tangle in the evaluations of the Normandy format's recent meeting in Paris.

The key characteristics of the situation in Ukraine as a whole and in Donbass in particular are drastic deindustrialization of the country and the rising unemployment rate. It will eventually exacerbate the economic underdevelopment of the country.

On the first anniversary of the referendum on independence of the Donetsk People's Republic, its officials claimed that they were fine with becoming an autonomy as a part of Ukraine. The problem of creating autonomous formations and their functioning can generally be solved under certain conditions. But it depends on who will manage the economic process.