Definitions
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- proper noun An industrial region in eastern
Ukraine .
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- noun an industrial region in the Ukraine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Charting the mechanisation of the Donbas area of the Ukraine, it is an aural assault of collaged industrial sounds, as harsh, heavy and blaring as the work itself.
Marx at the movies 2011
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A further two to 32 trillion cubic meters of shale gas may lie close to the Polish border, and up to 8 trillion cubic meters of coal-bed methane gas may be in the Donbas basin, according to estimates made last year by former President Viktor Yushchenko 's energy advisor Bohdan Sokolovsky and the Ukrainian government' s National Agency for Energy Resource Management, though these reserves have yet to be commercially proven.
Ukraine Viktor Tkachuk 2010
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Donbas workers praised his film for showing how hard their lives were; for the Party, that was exactly the reason why it was suspicious.
Marx at the movies 2011
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I believe, however unpopular it is to say, that I see Ukraine benefiting from a split/secession; the Donbas region has a completely different mentality and interpretation of history and constantly pulls Ukraine in a direction against which the majority of the oblasts (states) desire.
Ukraine's 2010 Presidential elections Damian Kolodiy 2010
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I believe, however unpopular it is to say, that I see Ukraine benefiting from a split/secession; the Donbas region has a completely different mentality and interpretation of history and constantly pulls Ukraine in a direction against which the majority of the oblasts (states) desire.
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And everyone worries that Mr. Yanukovych and his band of Donbas-based "dons" are ruthlessly pursuing the same anti-democratic agenda that sparked the Orange Revolution of 2004.
Ukraine's Democracy in Danger Alexander J. Motyl 2010
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And everyone worries that Mr. Yanukovych and his band of Donbas-based "dons" are ruthlessly pursuing the same anti-democratic agenda that sparked the Orange Revolution of 2004.
Ukraine's Democracy in Danger Alexander J. Motyl 2010
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And everyone worries that Mr. Yanukovych and his band of Donbas-based "dons" are ruthlessly pursuing the same anti-democratic agenda that sparked the Orange Revolution of 2004.
Ukraine's Democracy in Danger Alexander J. Motyl 2010
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Most of Ukraine's coal is mined in the Donetsk/Donbas basin in the eastern region of the country.
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Donbas coal fields to first secretary and chairman of the USSR Council of
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