Former "Defense Minister" of the self-proclaimed
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Igor Girkin, nom de guerre Strelkov, has
announced the creation of an All-Russia national movement whose task is to
unify Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, according to Russia's TV Channel Dozhd.
The declared goals of the movement are to "revive
Russia as a Russian national state, which will serve the interests of the
Russian nation," Dozhd wrote with reference to the Novorossiya website.
The declaration states that "the land where Russian
people live, where the blood of Russian people was shed have the right to be
returned to Russia."
Members of the new movement stand in favor of
"the unification of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, and other
Russian lands into a single, all-Russian state and the transformation of the
entire territory of the former USSR to an unconditional Russian zone of
influence."
Other proposals of members of the new movement include
the introduction of a score system for migrants, the abolition of "all the
norms that violate human rights and freedoms," the release of political
prisoners, "the return of the freedom of political life to citizens"
and the abolition of Internet control laws.
"We refuse the current political regime our
support," the members of the movement said in their declaration.
As media reported earlier, Girkin announced in October
2015 he could create a party in Russia that will be the opposition to Russian
President Vladimir Putin.
Girkin is an avid historical battle re-enactor from
Moscow and a former colonel in Russia's federal security service who led
Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014-2015. He once fought as a
volunteer in Bosnia and in Transdniestria, a Russian-backed breakaway republic
in Moldova. He was also seen advising separatist leaders in Crimea before the
peninsula was annexed by Russia in March 2014.
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