[eluminate]

3,500 local officials from 17 regions in eastern and southern Ukraine voted unanimously to hold a referendum on the area's "regional status," an apparent first step to act on threats made in the last few days to break away from the rest of the country if Yushchenko wins the presidency.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18131-2004Nov28.html
(WASHINGTON POST !!!) granted the story is biased towards my view but they have the information I talked about...

[eluminate]

yes the partition could happen peacefully because of several things. for one most of the military units and navy is stationed in south east. Also they would just block the railroads at the regional boundaries and that would be that. As long as noone tries to force anything a breakup peacefully is fairly possible.

3,500 local officials from 17 regions in eastern and southern Ukraine voted unanimously to hold a referendum on the area's "regional status," an apparent first step to act on threats made in the last few days to break away from the rest of the country if Yushchenko wins the presidency.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18131-2004Nov28.html
(WASHINGTON POST !!!) granted the story is biased towards my view but they have the information I talked about...

[rodguy911]

IMHO it would be nice if the entire country were free to chose their leader and they all agreed. But it really doesn't look that way. The East seems to be inexplicably tied to mother Russia for some reason, I don't have enough background in the country's history to know why. The West seems to be in a different world, more tied to the EU or the West.