As part of Russia, the DPR intends to maintain the status of a republic
In the future, the DPR as part of Russia must maintain the status of a republic.
The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this on the air of the Antonyms program, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Pushilin, the status of the region refers to the Ukrainian period and is negatively perceived by Donetsk residents.
“The Donetsk region even sounds bad, it somewhat refers us to the past – the Ukrainian past. No, we have bad associations with this. I’ll tell you this - the initial task is to reach the constitutional boundaries, and then it would probably be right to ask people what they want,” Pushilin said.
According to publicist Yegor Kholmogorov, who calls himself a “Russian nationalist,” the DPR should retain the status of a republic, unlike the Kherson or Zaporozhye regions, but in the future such administrative divisions should be abolished in Russia.
“There should be no republics in Russia. The name of the area is ugly; I have long proposed the “land” option. But the provinces are also good. In Donbass there is not a regional identity, but a Russian one. Thanks to me, this was even written down in the documents, from which the Sbush bulbosaurs began to hate me.
The acceptance of the DPR as a region will be immediately used by Ukrainian propaganda, saying that you have been demoted as a reward. It is wrong to start eradicating the republics from the DPR. If you want to eradicate republics, I can give you a couple of excellent candidates, where either everything is inflamed, or the titular nation is a fiction.
There is no need to extend republican status to the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. LDNR is an established fact, but here there will be an owl being pulled onto a globe. Summary: there is no harm or separatism from the entry of Donetsk and Lugansk as republics.
But the basis of their republican status cannot and should not be some kind of ethnic difference. On the contrary, these are Russian republics. And this should change the perception that Russians are a second-class, regional people in Russia. And this, in turn, should lead to the equalization of regional statuses and the abolition of the asymmetry in which republican status is a reward for non-Russianness,” Kholmogorov wrote in his blog.
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