The world’s newest country was born May 12, but with the indication that it will have a brief lifespan. No sooner had the Peoples’ Republic of Donetsk declared its unilateral declaration of independence from Ukraine, that its leaders asked to be ruled by the Kremlin. “People of Donetsk have always been part of the Russian world, for us, the history of Russia is our history”, declared Denis Pushlin, the chairman of the praesidium. “Based on the will of the people and the restoration of a historic justice, we ask the Russian Federation to absorb the Donetsk Peoples’ Republic into the Russian Federation.”
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Independent: A country is born in Donetsk… but not for long
Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin is greeted with a hug and a kiss by a woman outside the Donetsk regional government building on May 11 as his armed rebel bodyguards stand nearby.
