via @ChristopherJM
Very popular meme today:
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service video of government forces and Russian-backed rebels exchanging 19 prisoners at a checkpoint near the town of Schastia, north of Luhansk, yesterday. A prisoner released by separatists was visibly shaken but said he'd been treated well. Small exchanges of this kind are an occasional occurrence in the conflict. A cease-fire has been in place since September 5, but has often been broken.
One of Ukraine's new parliamentarians, widely respected investigative reporter Mustafa Nayyem, in an effort to highlight what he clearly regards as a contributor to the country's corruption problem, says he "can't survive on 6.5 thousand" hryvnyas, equivalent to around $500.