This coal-rich region, called the Donbass, is the heartland for Yanukovich supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference

Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass 1931 focuses on the struggles of Soviet miners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dziga Vertov, director] Reference

The Gdansk yard was sold to Donbass, a Ukrainian conglomerate, in a 2007 privatization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polish Shipyards Ordered] Reference

When Lucescu, the team's Romanian head coach, first saw plans for the Donbass Arena, he knew what he had to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe's Little Piece of Brazil] Reference

Miners in the Donbass, Vorkuta, and Karaganda coalfields began a strike, demanding 100 - to 150-percent pay increases.    From Wordnik.com.  [c. Belarus] Reference

Ukraine's steel and coal magnate Rinat Akhmetov, who in March won a seat in Ukraine's Parliament, owns Donbass Palace in Donetsk, Ukraine, through his company System Capital Management.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billionaire's Hotels] Reference

Thousands of striking miners demanding better working and living conditions in the Donbass and Kuzbass coalfields and in other areas posed what Gorbachev called the most serious threat yet to perestroika.    From Wordnik.com.  [1989, Jan] Reference

They own the mines, and the metals industries in silly Donbass.    From Wordnik.com.  [News on www.kyivpost.com] Reference

The former mechanic from Ukraine's Donbass mining region, seen as close to Moscow, won by a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

We, the people of the Donbass region, have been waiting for this moment for five long years.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Video coverage of the match begins at 7pm (British time) from Shakhtar Donetsk's new Donbass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web User | News] Reference

At the same time, they are not perturbed by the fact that many famous penmen came from Donbass.    From Wordnik.com.  [News on www.kyivpost.com] Reference

Donbass was fading and Donbass voters voted mainly for Yanukovych to keep Tymoshenko from power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference

Yanukovich, an ex-mechanic from the Donbass mining region, is expected to tilt Ukraine back towards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference

Workers, Strikes, and Pogroms: The Donbass - Dnepr Bend in Late Imperial Russia, 1870-1905 by Charters Wynn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Rather, the citizens of Donbass region hold their oligarchs in the highest respect; above all, Rinat Akhmetov, the richest man in Ukraine.    From Wordnik.com.  [News on www.kyivpost.com] Reference

The residents of Donbass, the backbone of Yanukovych's electorate, support him as one of their own, who grew up among them to become a power broker.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.kyivpost.com] Reference

Here's an example: Yanukovych recently announced that, in his native Donbass, children are suffering and crying because they are forced to study in Ukrainian.    From Wordnik.com.  [News on www.kyivpost.com] Reference

Amerika had come to pass, we'd all be watching Major League Motoball in between documentaries about wheat-growing in the Caucasus and hydroelectric triumphs in the Donbass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woot! - One Day, One Deal] Reference

Ukraine mine blast toll rises to 69 miner lies in a pressure chamber in a Donetsk hospital after a methane explosion ripped through a colliery in Ukraine's Donbass coalfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Over dozen houses cave in] Reference

Major powers including the United States, Russia and the European Union have congratulated Yanukovich, a 59-year-old ex-mechanic from the Donbass mining region, on his victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Yanukovych was a Communist Party member in 1980 and a protoge of politically connected cosmonaut Georgi Beregovoi, who like Yanukovych, hails from Ukraine's eastern Donbass region.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Expanding Ukrainian exports, particularly steel and chemicals produced by the country's eastern Donbass region, would be a top priority of a Yanukovych administration, Kolesnykov said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Blizhnyuk talks of the accommodation available elsewhere in Donbass, but the question of how to ship thousands of fans, for instance, 80 miles south to Mariupol after a game yields no answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference

In Donetsk, Platini will inspect the airport and visit the Donbass Arena Stadium where a short press conference is planned after a presentation of the host city, which is scheduled for approximately 1740.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.kyivpost.com] Reference

Yanukovich, a rough-hewn ex-mechanic from the Donbass mining region, has a support base in the Russian-speaking industrial east and in the south and is backed by wealthy industrialists and interest groups there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Roy Hodgson's side take a slender 2-1 lead to the Donbass Stadium following last week's first-leg win over Shakhtar Donetsk, and know avoiding defeat will set up a mouthwatering clash with Ajax or Juventus in the next round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference

Akhmetov is hugely popular in Donbass, not just for his investment in infrastructure and the local football team, but also because he provides jobs, but if those jobs disappear, so too may support for the great glowing blue elephant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference

August 27th, 2009 DONETSK, Ukraine -- Grand Opening of Donbass Arena Stadium Gets the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

"It comes predominantly out of the Donbass and particularly the Donetzk Oblast (province).    From Wordnik.com.  [SofiaEcho RSS feed] Reference

Survivors at the Donbass colliery in eastern.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Over dozen houses cave in] Reference

Donbass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subject Index Page 22] Reference

Donbass Palace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billionaire's Hotels] Reference

Courtesy of Donbass Palace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billionaire's Hotels] Reference

Donbass Eastern Ukranian Airlines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

"He will save Ukraine and protect the Donbass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference