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By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com

Regime change in Ukraine proved to be relatively easy compared to the much tougher, far more consequential task of keeping the nation from breaking into two parts.

And this is despite the volcanic eruption of violence and bloodshed that has riveted the world in recent weeks.

Now the former president, Viktor Yanukovych, is on the run from the victorious Maydan protesters whose supporters in the rebellious Ukrainian parliament invalidated his presidency.

They appointed as interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, a stalwart ally of the former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who had been jailed by Yanukovych.

But the country is equally divided along a line slicing through the middle: to the east and southeast of the line lies predominantly pro-Moscow ethnic Russian territory while the other side is for the most part a pro-West ethnic Ukrainian.

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