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 The "people's governor" of the Donetsk republic, Pavlo Gubarev, has announced the creation of the Novorossiya (New Russia) Party with its head office in Donetsk."I, on my behalf, hereby proclaim the creation of a new political party, Novorossiya, whose head office will be in Donetsk. The new party will be led only by those people who in this difficult time showed themselves as true patriots of their Motherland and proved themselves as true fighters and defenders of their Fatherland," Hubarev said, according to the Novorossiya news analysis portal.

 Very soon, the party will hold its founding congress in Donetsk “where we shall announce our charter and our ideology, elect our leadership and outline the development strategy for the party,” Gubarev said.

Also, elections to the new parliament of the Donetsk Republic will be in the very near future, the “people’s governor” said in his statement.