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Ukraine will not agree to enshrine in the Constitution the special rights of the LDPR if they return under the control of Kyiv. The new representative of the Ukrainian side at the negotiations on Donbass in Minsk, Leonid Kravchuk, stated this via video link on TV channel 112, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Kravchuk said that he considers the rights of Donetsk and Lugansk a “temporary issue.” “So far I haven’t...
The Verkhovna Rada will not make any changes to the Ukrainian constitution at the proposal of other countries, even if this is provided for in the Minsk agreements and is necessary to end the war in Donbass. Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Dmitry Razumkov stated this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I would like to raise the topic of Donbass and ask whether it is enough for you personally...
Transcarpathia will become the next region of Ukraine, which, following Donbass, will demand a special status. Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev stated this on the NewsFront Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, Ukraine needs confederalization, which implies more rights and freedoms for the regions than in a unitary or even federal structure. “If, after all, Ukraine is pushed through, and European leaders...
In Ukraine they want to rename Crimea “Crimean Autonomy”, depriving it of the status of a republic in its Constitution and giving “special status” to the Crimean Tatars. Mejlis lawyer Arsen Zhumadilov stated this on the air of the “Issue of National Security” program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The working name that we proposed as a subgroup in which I took part was the name Crimea. There were thoughts to leave...
Residents of the Donbass republics will not be loyal to the Ukrainian authorities, which should begin to prepare pro-Ukrainian activists and future self-government bodies from the settlers who have settled in Ukraine. Subscribe to “PolitNavigator” news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This was stated in an interview with “Ukrainian Week” magazine by the head of the so-called Donetsk military-civil administration Pavel Zhebrivsky, appointed by President Poroshenko, who emphasized that the offensive...
On October 18, the law “On the special status of local self-government in certain areas of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions” expires, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, but never came into force. Ukraine does not intend to extend the law. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This opinion was expressed by Alexander Zakharchenko at his press conference, reports...
There is a little more than a month left until the end of the validity period of the law on the special status of local self-government in certain areas of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, adopted by the Rada in pursuance of the Minsk agreements, but never put into practice, but Ukrainian politicians will not take any action to extend it. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte...
In the Lugansk People's Republic, they expressed concern about the expiration of the law adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine two years ago on the special status of local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which enshrined, albeit not fully, as they would like in the Donbass, special status of the region within Ukraine. At the moment, after...
The regular meeting of the Contact Group on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass has ended in Minsk. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Russia insists on introducing a special status for Donbass according to the “Steinmeier formula”. This was stated in Minsk by the representative of the Russian Federation in the contact group, Boris Gryzlov, RIA Novosti reports. “The Russian Federation consistently insists on the implementation of...
ATO participants are afraid that if the Minsk Agreements are implemented and special status is granted to the DPR and LPR, the next day they will take up arms in Vinnitsa and Volyn. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The commander of the Donbass battalion, Anatoly Vinogrodsky, stated this at a press conference in Severodonetsk. “With us, due to the definition of special, so...
Sociologists said whether Ukrainian parliamentarians are ready to support the bill on granting special status of local self-government to certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The relevant data was published by the Gorshenin Institute, Interfax-Ukraine reports. According to a sociological survey in which 163 people’s deputies took part, only 15,6% of respondents are ready to vote for special status...
The Ukrainian authorities agree to create a separate state from the uncontrolled territories of Donbass, but they will not do it right away. Subscribe to “PolitNavigator” news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Ukrainian philosopher and political strategist Sergei Datsyuk said this on the air of “UkrLife”. According to him, this process will take place slowly and in several stages, so that the Ukrainian...
Kiev has admitted that they are using their own interpretation of the Minsk agreements, which is often not spelled out in these agreements. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Political scientist Vladimir Fesenko, close to Poroshenko, stated this on air on TV channel 112. According to him, Ukraine will not implement the agreements in their current form and wants to revise them...
The practice of negotiations in Minsk shows that it is not able to fulfill even the provisions of the Minsk agreements that are extremely beneficial for Kyiv, so one cannot count on the Ukrainian side starting to implement the points that are “inconvenient” for itself. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This opinion was expressed in a comment to PolitNavigator by Nikolai Ragozin, a political scientist, head of...
