"Givi" before the war
For some reason I missed "Givi"s pre-war photos. And here in the friendfeed I noticed his photo from the times when he worked as a guard in a store, back in 2010. You can't tell right away that one of the famous commanders of the future war in Donbass is shown there. And the majority of those who currently fight in Donbass are similar regular people who ended up in "irregular" circumstances, where they were forced to take up arms and did this sufficiently successfully well to break off the teeth of the regular Ukrainian army.
Original article: http://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/2100379.html (in Russian)