. >> with our chief foreign editor robert parsons. tell us more about the east-west divide, if we can call it that. speaking, the country is divided between the west and east. west being, broadly speaking, the east,tion and the broadly speaking, pro-victor , but it is not as simple as that. is true,the east, it the population is very much in favor of yanukovych and calling for the opposition to be crushed but another's, not the case. a majority of the population in east ukraine is ukrainian and many of them identify with the demand in the hopes of the opposition. said,ny, it has to be because the economy in the eastern ukraine is so tightly linked to the economy of russia, they are nervous about the future and want to preserve very close links to russia for understandable reasons. to speak about fear of civil war at this point, or could the country be tipping into that level of violence? is wrongdon't think it to talk about the risk of civil war. it is very real, i think, and the more the government takes this route of force, the more