Four Years of Kremlin's 'Donbas Republics'

It is surely appropriate that the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics' [DPR, LPR] date their ‘statehood' from a fake referendum that even Russia eventually decided not to recognize.  This is not the way the so-called '11 May referendum' is presented in the militant-controlled media and a new ‘history textbook', and it is certainly not the impression that a small number of European politicians, usually from the far-right or extreme left, give when they appear for their all-expenses-paid visits, via Russia, to Donbas.