18.01.2020

The Chairman of the DPR’s People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka said in an interview to RIA Novosti that the residents of Donbass would love to see the region to become a full-fledged subject of the Russian Federation, but this was hampered by a difficult international situation.

On January 18, the Chairman of the DPR’s People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka and the Deputy Chairman of the LPR’s People’s Council Oleg Koval attended a Great Circle meeting of the Cossack military society “Black Sea Cossack Host”, which was held in the Crimean Academic Russian Drama Theatre named after M. Gorky.

On January 18, in the city of Simferopol, the Republic of Crimea, a solemn meeting and laying flowers at the monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky on the occasion of the 366th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Council took place.

A direct dialogue between Donbass representatives and the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky would accelerate the settlement of the conflict in the region. This was stated by the Chairman of the DPR’s People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka in an interview to RIA Novosti.

If Ukraine really did want peace, it would simply stick to the terms of the Minsk agreements. This was stated in an interview with RIA Novosti by DPR People’s Council Chairman Vladimir Bidyovka, commenting on the words of Daria Olifer, the press secretary of Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kuchma, about the procedure for holding elections. In particular, the fact that elections in Donbass can be held only after the…