Donetsk declares independence like Crimea on 24th August. Not reported in Western media until 28th.

Press Conference - Formation of a state - 24 Aug 2014.  Only reported on the BBC on the 28th, and then called 'Russian separatists.'  Donetsk has formed a new state through a democratic vote, as did Crimea, and is not part of Russia..

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French volunteers former soldiers fight against the European Union and the NWO

In a 1994 interview, the head of the separatist state of Transnistria in Moldova stated that the state was "an inalienable part of the Russian state's southern regions" including Odessa, Crimea, and other Ukrainian oblasts, which were collectively part of the historical Novorossiya region.^[10] Dmitry Trenin of the Carnegie Moscow Center wrote that in 2003 some Russian academics discussed the idea of a pro-Russia Novorossiya state being formed out of southern Ukraine in response to moves towards bringing Ukraine into NATO.^[9]

The term soon came into usage in 2014 among Antimaidan protesters following the Euromaidan Ukrainian Revolution with a Novorossiya account being created onTwitter and gaining thousands of followers in the first weekend.^[9] Amidst talks in Geneva on resolving the rising unrest in southern and eastern Ukraine, President Putin noted at a Q&A session that the southern and eastern portions of Ukraine had originally been part of Novorossiya and suggested that it had been a mistake to cede them.^[11]

Formation[edit]

The New Russia Party, founded on 13 May 2014 in Donetsk, Ukraine,^[12] declared on its first congress of 22 May 2014 the formation of a new self-declared state named 'Novorossiya', inspired by the historical region of the Russian Empire that carried that name. The congress was attended by separatist officials of the Donetsk People's Republic, Donbass People's Militia as well as by the Donetsk Republic leader Pavel Gubarev, writer Alexander Prokhanov,^[13] political scientist and Eurasia Party leader Aleksandr Dugin, and Valery Korovin (Коровин, Валерий Михайлович (ru)).^[14] The state would, according to Dugin, have its capital city in Donetsk, Russian Orthodox Christianity as the state religion, and would nationalize major industries.^[3] According to Gubarev the state would also include (the major cities currently not under control of separatists) Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Odessa and Zaporizhia.^[15][16] Two days later, the self-appointed 'Prime Minister' of Donetsk Alexander Borodai and Lugansk "head of the Republic"Alexei Koriakin signed a document behind closed doors formalizing their merger into the new confederation.^[17]

The status of Novorossiya then came into dispute on 26 May, when according to Bolotov, "none of the agreements have been concluded" but the intention is to form a "Union of People's Republics".^[18] In an interview on 31 May, Denis Pushilin, head of state of the Donetsk People's Republic, stated that Novorossiya currently exists as a union of people's republics, but cooperation could be deepened if more territories were to join.^[19]

In July a "Manifesto of National Front of Liberation of Ukraine, Novorossiya and Carpathian Russia" was published in Russian media. The manifesto defines objective of the separatist movement to be "establishing on territory of Ukraine a just, social, national republic without oligarchs and corrupted bureaucracy" and their main enemies being "liberal-fascist ruling elites". The key subject of the movement is called "the nation" and the main purpose of the movement is to "protect the nation's interests"