Posted on 05/13/2014 3:13:08 PM PDT by goldstategop
DONETSK, May 14. /ITAR-TASS/. Oleg Tsarev will prepare a federal agreement for the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics, according toa resolution of the coordinating council of the South-East association that was published on Tuesday.
According to the document, Tsarev will lead a working group that will be tasked to word a draft agreement for a unification of the self-proclaimed Luganks and Donetsk Peoples Republics into a single entity - the Federal Republic of Novorossia.
Later on, the constitution of the new state and a mechanism for admitting new constituent entities into the would-be federation will be worked out.
The thing is that while Transdniestra is wholly dependent on Russia (and formerly Ukraine), it was never taken over by Russia. But if all these oblasts were to separate from Ukraine (which I highly doubt), I’m sure Transdniestra would unify or all-but-unify with whatever republic novorussia forms, or if Novorussia joins Russia, it would join too... and be contiguous.
Aren’t Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia all already part of some commonwealth or pact called the Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations?
The slow-motion annexation by Russia of parts of Ukraine has all the legitimacy of Stalin's annexation of eastern Poland in 1939, and may be as permanent.
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