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UNIAN: Russian-backed leader Pushilin resigns as ‘parliament’ head

By UNIAN.

Published Sept. 10, 2018. Updated Sept. 10 at 2:08 pm

Denis Pushilin, the speaker of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) parliament, gives a press conference on Aug. 31, 2018 in Donetsk, following emergency government meeting after Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), was killed in a bomb blast.

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Acting “head” of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”) Denis Pushilin has resigned as “deputy” of the so-called “People’s Council of the DPR.”

Pushilin also fulfilled the duties of the self-styled “parliament” chairman, the Ukrainian news outlet Novosti Donbassa has reported.

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