A girl holding a flag at a festive rally in honor of the 8th anniversary of the proclamation of the DPR and LPR. Archival photoLUGANSK, June 12The residents of Donbass have been defending the right to be Russian for eight years, Sergei Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, said. «Everything that is happening in the world today is a challenge. It is a big and serious challenge But for the people living in the Donbass, who for eight years defended their right to choose their own destiny, their right to be Russian — Russian not only as a nationality, Russian as a cultural choice, to speak Russian, to read books in Russian, to raise their children on Russian culture and traditions of our great people — you, better than anyone, showed an example of what it means to defend your right to make an independent choice,» Kiriyenko said at the presentation of the projects of Rosmolodezh (FADM) and the Russian Society «Knowledge» (ROZ) with connections sites in Moscow, Lugansk, Donetsk. According to Kiriyenko, «the fact that today we are together in a single space means that we will definitely win.» «The territory of Donbass will be completely liberated dressed. This means that the space of this single culture, the space of possibilities is available to everyone. Any crisis that we face, we will definitely cope with it and definitely win. Any crisis is also a time of opportunity,» Kiriyenko concluded.
