A source close to the State Duma told Vedomosti that on December 30, the DPR and LPR will simultaneously adopt their Constitution, which states that they are republics within Russia.
LPR People’s Council Spokesperson Denis Miroshnichenko said at a press conference on 29 December that the deputies will meet on 30 December: “Tomorrow [30 декабря] A general assembly will be held, and one of the issues will be the adoption of the Constitution.”
According to Vedomosti, a meeting of the DPR regional parliament will also be held on the same day, where journalists were invited without specifying the agenda.
In early December, DPR People’s Council spokesman Vladimir Bidevka announced that authorities would accept the document before the end of this year.
“All legal processes are planned to be completed in the near future for the adoption of the new Constitution of the Donetsk People’s Republic, a subject of the Russian Federation, by the end of the year,” he told Donetsk News Agency on December 4. .
In early November, Vedomosti reported that Constitutions for the new regions of Russia were already being prepared. According to the publication, the Kremlin planned to complete this work by the end of November. After that, the document is sent for approval by the public’s subject assembly.
From September 23 to 27, referendums were held in the republics of the Donbass, as well as in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, on the integration of regions that were once Ukraine into Russia. According to the results, the vast majority answered “yes”. On September 30, the leaders of the DPR, LPR and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed agreements on the annexation of four new territories to Russia. On October 4, Putin ratified agreements on the admission of the DPR and LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
As for the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Vedomosti wrote, citing other sources, that at another time they will have regional charters. “This will not happen until new parliaments of these subjects of the Federation are elected,” the federal official said.
Vedomosti wrote on 26 December that the elections are scheduled for 10 September 2023 and there are no plans to postpone it yet.
A source led by one of the new districts said that officials of the presidential administration, together with lawyers, are considering scenarios in which it would be possible to hold elections in the Legislative Assembly even if there is still martial law in the four countries. regions during the events.
Symbols of new Russian subjects have already been placed in the Federation Council. The flags were placed on the flag street at the Federation Council, a TASS reporter reported.
“DPR and LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are full-fledged subjects of the Russian Federation. In her speech at the ceremony, Federation Council President Valentina Matviyenko said, “We are currently 89 people. According to established tradition, their flags will now take their rightful place in the flag gallery of the Chamber of Regions.”
On December 28, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview with the Big Game program on Channel One, said that Moscow is concerned about the fate of the regions and plans to fully control these regions within its administrative borders: “I am speaking. , of course, about its borders within the composition of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Constitution of Russia. In my opinion, that is obvious.”
The head of the Foreign Ministry also stressed that the absolute priority is Russia’s new territories that “must be liberated from the threats of Naziization to which they have been subjected for many years”.
Emphasizing that those who want to be a part of Russia are the citizens who voted in the referendum, Lavrov said, “This is a request for a declaration of will realized in all four regions. in Donetsk [народной республике] and for a long time in the Lugansk People’s Republic, and this autumn in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.”
Source: Gazeta
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