The People’s Council of the Donetsk People’s Republic adopted a decree according to which the DPR is the successor of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic. This is with reference to the head of the People’s Council of the DPR, Andrey Purgin, reported by the news agency
DAN:
This is a political document on the succession of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog and Donetsk republics. We feel that we are a part of the historical construct that was proclaimed in 1917 (1918) year.
From the memorandum adopted by the DPR Parliament:
We proclaim the continuation of the traditions of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic and declare that the State of Donetsk People's Republic is its successor. We call for the cooperation and unification of efforts to build a new federal state on a voluntary contractual basis between the people and the territory of Ukraine, which were part of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, as well as other areas that expressed their consent to become equal subjects of the federation.
Andrey Purgin:
This memorandum is not a legislative act, but a political perspective of state-building before the celebration of the anniversary of the official legalization of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, which is the roots of the DPR.
For your information:Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic was proclaimed on February 12 1918 in Kharkov. The republic included territories that today correspond to the Donetsk, Luhansk, partly Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Sumy, Kherson, and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine, and also partly the Rostov region of the Russian Federation. According to some reports, the flag of the DKR was a black-blue-red tricolor.
In March, 1918 of the year became part of the Ukrainian Socialist Republic. In February 1919, the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic de jure ceased to exist.
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