A confusão é tanta no Médio Oriente que o termo "Siraque" é adequado. O conflito num mapa:

Na Ucrânia, para além do gás de xisto, as zonas onde há mais conflito são curiosamente onde há mais indústria (Se já era pobre então agora...):

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-ukraine-crisis-economy-east-idUSKBN0FX0CJ20140728

Na Ucrânia, para além do gás de xisto, as zonas onde há mais conflito são curiosamente onde há mais indústria (Se já era pobre então agora...):

Many in Ukraine's western and central regions see the industrial east as a burden, home to an outdated Soviet economy of monolithic factories that offer little to the rest of a country where other sectors and smaller firms are more common.
But officials say with a budget unable to finance the Ukrainian army after losing revenues from Crimea, annexed by Moscow in March, Kiev not only needs the contributions from its east but also its heavy industry, albeit in a modernised form.
"There's a war in Donetsk and Luhansk and practically all revenue from these regions to the state budget has fallen. Plus they annexed Crimea," said Mikhailo Noniak, deputy minister for revenue and duties at Ukraine's tax agency.
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Ukraine is virtually bankrupt, running wide external deficits and struggling to cover state wages, never mind feed and equip an army whose numbers have risen as fighting against rebels who want independence for the Donbass intensifies.
Western lender, the International Monetary Fund, has thrown a financial lifeline, stumping up $17.1 billion as part of a two-year bailout package. Kiev has received $3.2 billion so far and hopes to get an additional $1.4 billion in late August.
(...)
Donetsk contributed 11.7 percent, or 170.8 billion hryvnias UAH=, to Ukrainian gross domestic product last year and Luhansk contributed just over 4 percent, at 38.9 billion hryvnias.
But they swallowed more than 10 billion hryvnias from the budget in 2013, largely because of the high number of state workers in the mining and steel industries.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-ukraine-crisis-economy-east-idUSKBN0FX0CJ20140728







