The electoral commission for the People’s Republic of Donetsk has announced a landslide victory in today’s referendum in favor of the ballot question, saying roughly 89 percent voted yes.
The referendum question simply asks if the voters support the creation of the People’s Republic of Donetsk, and leaves open the question of exactly what that means, beyond support for the group leading the protests in the region.
Many of the protest leaders see the vote as giving them a legal mandate to operate as an autonomous entity, and are pushing to formalize themselves as an autonomous region within Ukraine.
Other protest leaders, by contrast, are presenting the move as a de facto vote for independence, with Governor Pavel Gubarev of Donetsk saying it marked the first step toward the creation of Novorossia as a new entity.
Up the glorious Peoples' Republic of Donetsk!!!
Viva Donetsk Libre!
On CBS news last night, this was described as "defying the will of the international community"
Exactly – the "international community" has no right to inflict anyone with their "will' – let the people who live there decide. As far as CBS goes, they're usually wrong anyway.
Exactly – the "international community" has no right to inflict anyone with their "will' – let the people who live there decide. As far as CBS goes, they're usually wrong anyway – they haven't been relevant since Cronkite retired.
Cronkite's tenure at CBS lasted from 1963 until 1981. It coincided with much of the so-called second war in Vietnam from 1956 until 1975. I do not remember that he was all that much "relevant" then.
Exactly – the "international community" has no right to inflict anyone with their "will' – let the people who live there decide. As far as CBS goes, they're usually wrong anyway – they haven't been relevant since Cronkite retired.
By "the international community" I presume that they mean the small number of (mainly) hereditary oligarchs who run the western so-called democracies.
Tomorrow if you want to take a dump in the woods you will be defying the will of the so called International Community. Well they can go F themselves willfully
On CBS news last night, this was described as "defying the will of the international community"
Nobody will recognize the result since the vote was not conducted in accordance with internationally recognised standards. Putin has already made the mistake of calling for the vote to be "recognised" even though he asked for it to be postponed. That will further undermine his credibility.
Of course not. The "international community" refers to those Western govts that are totally subservient to the banking cartel, thus they are pissed that they won't be able to rape E Ukraine
Was the Kiev putsch conducted in accordance with internationally recognised standards?
Novorussia! Sure beats being under the thumb of a bunch of murderous Svoboda neonazis and US-installed billionaire bankers! Way to go!
Note to John Kerry. Autonomous means sovereign. Got it?
Normal people can't get out of the Ukraine fast enough, it seems.
The international community means the US and every nation that prefers to suck and blow them fro time to time.
Crimea. The only people who don’t face a brutal future. Will Russia spate a dismal future for the people of Eastern Ukraine?