Ukraine: A New State to Solve an Old Problem

A separatist leader in Ukraine has called the country a failed state and proposed starting a new one. On July 18 the head of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, called for the creation of Malorossiya (Little Russia) as a way to settle the long-running conflict in eastern Ukraine. Zakharchenko proposed a three-year transition to Malorossiya, whose capital would be Donetsk. The new state would incorporate other parts of Ukraine, including Luhansk and some areas not currently under the control of the pro-Russian separatists....