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Whilst getting praise for its business potential in 2009, Donetsk also received criticism for the strong mafia connection of its growing oligarchy, and for an increasing poverty rate.<ref>{{cite web|first=Natalia|last=Kommodova|url=http://www.ostro.org/donetsk/society/articles/67015/|script-title=ru:'Большие сдвиги' Донбасса, богатые летчики и бедные вундеркинды – Обзор донецкой прессы|trans-title='Great shifts' of Donbas, rich high fliers and poor wunderkind – Overview by the Donetsk Press|language=ru|publisher=Ostro.org|date=4 August 2009|access-date=14 December 2016}}</ref> Some analysts warned of a long-term collapse of the Donetsk economy; and that it could share [[Detroit]]'s gloomy fate, due to its failure to combat crime and poverty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://makeevkainfo.com.ua/content/pochemu-doneck-zhdet-sudba-detroyta|script-title=ru:Почему Донецк ждет судьба Детройта|trans-title=Why Donetsk awaits the fate of Detroit|language=ru|publisher=Makeevkainfo.com.ua|date=24 June 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140703220200/http://makeevkainfo.com.ua/content/pochemu-doneck-zhdet-sudba-detroyta|archive-date=3 July 2014}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=User generated site, with the author being 'a passer by'. Needs a reliable source.|date=December 2016}}
===Russo-Ukrainian War===
After President [[Viktor Yanukovych]] fled Ukraine to seek asylum in Russia, Russian-backed separatists took over the [[Donetsk Regional State Administration Building|Regional State Administration Building]], the main government building, in Donetsk. The police did not offer resistance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gazeta.ua/ru/articles/politics/_v-donecke-neskolko-soten-radikalov-s-krikami-rossiya-shturmuyut-oga/545225 |title=В Донецке несколько сотен радикалов с криками "Россия" штурмуют ОГА |date=3 March 2014 |publisher=Gazeta.ua |access-date=3 March 2014}}</ref> Later in the week the authorities of Donetsk disallowed a referendum on the status of the region<ref>{{cite web|url=http://novosti.dn.ua/details/219796/ |title=Новости Донбасса :: The authorities of Donetsk region don't want a referendum and they opposed 'foreign scenarios' – video report |publisher=Novosti.dn.ua |date=9 March 2014|access-date=9 August 2014}}</ref> and the police retook the Donetsk OSA building.<ref>{{cite news|first=Lina|last=Kushch|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-donetsk-idUSBREA250CW20140306|title=Ukrainian flag again flies over Donetsk regional HQ|work=[[Reuters]]|date=6 March 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307113744/https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/06/us-ukraine-crisis-donetsk-idUSBREA250CW20140306|archive-date=7 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Roth|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/world/europe/ukrainian-officials-in-east-move-to-blunt-pro-russia-forces.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0|title=Ukrainian Officials in East Act to Blunt Pro-Russian Forces|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=7 March 2014|access-date=16 December 2016|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Donetsk became one of the centers of the [[2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine]].
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