After the February 23, 2014 the Maidan nationalist beneficiaries abolished the 2012 law that had provided Russian with the status of the regional language. It was a cowardly law in its half-hearted claims that were in fact currying favor with nationalist hard-liners. The heavy-handed, immoral and stupid decision was bound to meet resistance and the whole of south-eastern Ukraine went up in flames.

The stage for the civil war had been long in the making. Outside players were generously chipping in to its beginning.

“I'll take a rain check on that drink” is an idiom that means you can't accept an invitation right now, but you'd like to do so at a later time. For example, you might say this if someone asks you out for a drink, but you have to work late: 
You: "I'll take a rain check on that drink. I have to work late tonight"
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The term "rain check" comes from baseball, where it was common in the 1880s to offer paying spectators a rain check if a game was postponed or ended early due to bad weather. The rain check entitled the spectator to future admission to the game. 
TAKE A RAIN CHECK (ON SOMETHING) - Cambridge Dictionary
used to tell someone that you cannot accept an invitation now, but would like to do so at a later time: Mind if I take a rain chec...

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Idioms and Phrases This term comes from baseball, where in the 1880s it became the practice to offer paying spectators a rain chec...