Live now! Referendum re. status of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Donetsk (eastern ukraine). (Референдум о статусе Донецкой народной республики (Трансляция из Донецка).
On May 11, 2014 Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic (both in Dondass) are voting to secede from ukraine. The referendum is taking place despite kiev junta’s military operation, bloodshed and attacks by the ukraine nazis against the peaceful people of Donbass.
During his visit to Switzerland, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the people of Donbass to postpone referendum so negotiations to withdraw ukraine troops form the south-east could take place. However, the locals voted unanimously to go ahead with the referendum despite Putin’s request, and despite the campaign of intimidation and military intervention by kiev.
I want to address an issue that seems to have generated a certain confusion. Some people are asking why Putin asked to postpone the referendum, going as far as suggesting that…
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