Yeah. You would think somebody would've had the brains to kill that motion and not alienate the Russophones even further than they already were. If the oligarchs really are running the show, they screwed up badly there. But it doesn't really look like anyone's running the show at the moment...

I don't. Sebastopol might make sense, if it remains an isolated case. But not the rest of the Crimea, nor the rest of Eastern Ukraine. It would set a horrible precedent and reward Putin for playing the neighbourhood pyromaniac - and in terms of forcing people (the Ukrainophones in the East, in this case, and the Tatars in the Crimea) to live in one state when they'd rather be living in another, it would probably be even worse than the current state of affairs, where at least the Russophonic Ukrainians are already used to living in an independent Ukraine.

What I do support would be a federal state with far-reaching authorities for the East, with needless to say the reinstallment of that law allowing Russian to be used as an official language on local levels. One could even argue that the Russophonic minority is so big as to make it necessary to accept Russian as an official language nation-wide.