Novorossiya (confederation)
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Novorossiya New Russia |
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| Status | Suspended | ||||
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Russian Ukrainian |
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| Religion | Russian Orthodox (official) | ||||
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 Donetsk People's Republic Luhansk People's Republic
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| Government | Provisional Confederation | ||||
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• Speaker of the Parliament
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Oleg Tsaryov | ||||
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• Head of the DPR
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Alexander Zakharchenko | ||||
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• Head of the LPR
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Igor Plotnitsky | ||||
| Confederation between Donetsk and Luhansk | |||||
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• Declared
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22 May 2014 | ||||
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• Recognized
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No country has recognized Novorossiya |
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Novorossiya or New Russia (Russian: Новоро́ссия, tr. Novorossiya; IPA: [nəvɐˈrosʲɪjə]; Ukrainian: Новоросія, Novorosiya), also referred to as the Union of People's Republics (Russian: Сою́з наро́дных респу́блик, tr. Soyuz Narodnykh Respublik; IPA: [sɐˈjus nɐˈrodnɨx rʲɪˈspublʲɪk]; Ukrainian: Союз народних республік, Soyuz Narodnykh Respublik), is a proposed confederation of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) in eastern Ukraine, both of which share a border with Russia. Ukraine has designated the confederation as lying within an Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone.
The two constituent republics of the confederation have no diplomatic recognition, and Ukraine has classified them as terrorist organizations. The creation of Novorossiya was declared on 22 May 2014, and one month later spokesmen of both republics declared their merger into a confederal "Union of People's Republics". Within a year the project was suspended: on 1 January 2015 founding leadership announced the project has been put on hold, and on 20 May the constituent members announced the freezing of the political project.
Novorossiya was the name of a territory of the Russian Empire formed from the Crimean Khanate and Zaporizhian Sich which was under a mutual condominium of the Russian Empire and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The territory had been annexed several years after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca concluded the Russo-Turkish War in 1774. Novorossiya initially included today's Southern Ukraine as well as some parts of today's Russia such as Kuban. The modern Russian Black Sea coast that was occupied by indigenous Circassians under military protection of the Ottoman Empire was not conquered until 1829 and was ceded to Russia under the 1829 Treaty of Adrianople.
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