Donetsk Republic (movement)

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Political party in Ukraine

Social Movement
"Donetsk Republic"

Общественное движение
«Донецкая республика»

Abbreviation| ODDR
Chairman| Denis Pushilin
Founders| Alexander Tsurkan
Andrei Purgin
Oleg Frolov
Founded| 9 December 2005 (2005-12-09)
Banned| 12 November 2007 (2007-11-12) (in Ukraine)
Preceded by| International Movement of Donbass
Merged into| United Russia
Headquarters| Universitetskaya 19, Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine (non-government controlled)
Youth wing| Young Republic,
Zakharovtsy
Paramilitary wing| Donbas People's Militia
Membership (2022)| 247,720 (claimed)[1]
Ideology| Russian nationalism[2]
Donbas separatism[3]
Social conservatism[2]
Political position| Big tent
Colours| DNR Flag colours:
Black
Blue
Red
Federation Council (Russia)|

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The Social Movement "Donetsk Republic" (Russian: Общественное движение «Донецкая республика», romanized: Obshchestvennoye dvizheniye «Donetskaya respublika»; ODDR) is a pro-Russian separatist political movement operating in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Before its annexation, the movement's goal was the creation of a "federation of sovereign Donetsk", which would include seven regions of eastern and southern Ukraine.[4][5] The group was banned in 2007, but this ban was marginal until the 2014 Donbas war. In 2014, it founded the Donetsk People's Republic, which Ukraine's government deems a terrorist organization.[6] The movement won the 2014 Donbas general elections with 68.53% of the vote and 68 seats,[7] which were condemned as illegitimate and a violation of the Minsk ceasefire agreements between Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE.[7]

In 2023 the movement was merged with the main governing party of Russia, Yedinaya Rossiya. Following the Russian Unity in 2014, it became the second political party from Ukraine that joined the governing party of the Russian Federation.

## History

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### Before the Russo-Ukrainian War

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The organization was established on 6 December 2005 as a city organization by Andrei Purguin, Alexander Tsurkan, and Oleh Frolov and on 9 December 2005 with support of Hennadiy Prytkov as a regional organization. The main goal of the organization was to grant the eastern regions of Ukraine a special status.[8] It claimed to fight the "orange plague" of President Viktor Yushchenko.[8] Their goal was to create a Federal Republic of Donetsk in Southeast Ukraine.[9] According to a map they published in 2006, this Federal Republic of Donetsk would comprise the Ukrainian Oblasts Kharkiv Oblast, Luhansk Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast and Kherson Oblast.[9]

Prior to the spring of 2014, the organization drew little support and remained on the margins of local politics.[10] Its pre-2014 rallies were averagely attended by about 30–50 people.[8] From 17 to 22 November 2006, its activists were conducting protests in Donetsk and were gathering signatures on creation of the Donetsk Republic.[11] Their activities were not supported by the prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych.[12] At the beginning of 2007, representatives of the organization conducted number of activities in various cities of eastern Ukraine propagating the idea of separatism and federalization of the country.[13]

### Russo-Ukrainian War

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In 2014, the organization founded the Donetsk People's Republic, which Ukraine's government deems a terrorist organization.[6]

The group's leader, Andrei Purgin, was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest.[4][5]

The movement won the 2014 Donbas general elections with 68.53% of the vote and 68 seats.[7] The Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic participates in the Donetsk Republic's parliamentary group.[14] In the election campaign prior to these elections only the candidate of Donetsk Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, used billboards.[15] This resulted to the only visible campaign advertising in Donetsk being in support of Zakharchenko.[16]

In the days and weeks prior until the postponement of the DNR October 2015 local elections (to 21 February 2016[17]) 90% of the (campaign) advertising was done by Donetsk Republic.[18]

### Following the full-scale invasion

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On 23 July 2022 the public movement "Donetsk Republic" and the party "United Russia" signed a cooperation agreement, the document was signed by the secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party Andrey Turchak and the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin.[19] Since September 2022, the acceptance of applications from members of the movement has begun,[20] according to the Donetsk Republic Public Movement, a year later, more than 67,000 of their activists joined the ranks of the United Russia party.[21]

## Electoral results

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### Head

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Election  | Candidate  | First round  | Second round  | Result

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Votes  | %  | Votes  | %
2014 | Alexander Zakharchenko | 775,340  |

78.93%

|  | Elected Y
2018 | Denis Pushilin |  |

60.86%

|  | Elected Y

### People's Council

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Election  | Party leader  | Performance  | Rank  | Government

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Votes  | %  | ± pp  | Seats  | +/–
2014 | Andrei Purgin | 662,752  | 68.35%  | New |

68 / 100

| New | 1st | Supermajority
2018 | Denis Pushilin |  | 72.38%  |  4.03  |

74 / 100

|  6  |  1st | Supermajority

## References

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1. ^ "НАС: 247720". oddr.info.
2. ^ a b http://oddr.info/o-nas/ О нас
3. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Donetsk People's Republic". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 31 July 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
4. ^ a b SBU detained the leader of Donetsk Republic. Espreso. 19 March 2014
5. ^ a b Court banned the organization Donetsk Republic Archived 30 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Ura-Inform. 12 November 2007
6. ^ a b "Ukraine's prosecutor general classifies self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk republics as terrorist organizations". Kyiv Post. 16 May 2014.
7. ^ a b c "Донецькі бойовики за ніч порахували голоси: "переміг" Захарченко".
8. ^ a b c (in Russian) Small bio of Andrei Purgin on Politrada
9. ^ a b (in Russian) What's "New Russia" and how to be, Ukrayinska Pravda (15 August 2014)
10. ^ Gerard Toal (2017). Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus. Oxford University Press. p. 243\. ISBN 978-0-19025-330-1.
11. ^ Signature collection for the independent Donetsk Republic. Russia-3.
12. ^ UNIAN: Yanukovych against the Donetsk Republic Archived 12 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Donetsk Republic. 23 November 2006
13. ^ Donetsk Republic presented Ukraine as united but divided Archived 30 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Ura-Inform. 10 January 2007
14. ^ Список депутатов Народного Совета ДНР созыва 2014 года [List of deputies of the People's Council of the People's Democratic Republic of 2014] (in Russian). 14 November 2014. Archived from the original on 18 November 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
15. ^ "Donetsk People's Republic campaign reveals shambolic tendencies". Financial Times. 23 October 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
16. ^ "Rebel-Backed Elections to Cement Status Quo in Ukraine". The New York Times. 2 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
17. ^ Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine postpone disputed elections, Reuters (6 October 2015)
Ukraine rebels to delay elections, The Washington Post (6 October 2015)
18. ^ (in Ukrainian) Donbas postpones elections, Gazeta.ru (5 October 2015)
19. ^ «Единая Россия» и движение «Донецкая республика» договорились о сотрудничестве Archived 28 September 2023 at the Wayback Machine // TASS, 23 July 2022
20. ^ 42 тыс членов движения «Донецкая республика» стали частью «Единой России» // RIAMO, 23 September 2022
21. ^ Более 67 000 активистов ОД «Донецкая Республика» пополнили ряды партии «Единая Россия» Archived 28 September 2023 at the Wayback Machine // Донецкое агенТство новостей (Donetsk News Agency), 14 June 2023

## External links

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* official website
* Truth about the Donetsk separatists. New Region. 14 September 2006.

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War in Donbas (2014–2022)

* Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War
* Followed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine

General
topics|

* Aircraft losses
* Humanitarian situation
* International reactions
* Sanctions
* Sanctioned people
* OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
* Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine
* Civil volunteer movement
* Little green men
* Anti-terrorist Operation Zone
* Civil–military administrations

Timeline|

* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022

Battles|

* Battle of Artemivsk
* Siege of Sloviansk
* Battle of Kramatorsk
* Battle of Mariupol
* Battles of Sievierodonetsk
* Battle of Karlivka
* 1st Battle of Donetsk Airport
* Siege of the Luhansk Border Base
* Battle of Krasnyi Lyman
* Zelenopillia rocket attack
* Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion
* Battle of Horlivka
* Battle of Ilovaisk
* Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack
* Battle of Novoazovsk
* Mariupol offensive
* 2nd Battle of Donetsk Airport
* Battle of Debaltseve
* Shyrokyne standoff
* Battle of Marinka
* Battle of Svitlodarsk
* Battle of Avdiivka (2017)

Other
events|

* Donbas status referendums
* Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 shootdown
* Shelling of Donetsk, Russia
* 2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine
* MH17 shoot-down
* reactions
* UNSC Resolution 2166
* NATO summit in Wales
* Minsk Protocol
* Donbas general elections
* 2014 G20 Brisbane summit
* Volnovakha bus attack
* Mariupol rocket attack
* Kramatorsk rocket attack
* Minsk II ceasefire agreement
* Kharkiv bombing
* Assassination of Alexander Zakharchenko
* Donbas general elections
* No to capitulation!
* Stanytsia Luhanska kindergarten bombing

Self-proclaimed
states|

* Donetsk People's Republic (April 2014 – September 2022)
* Luhansk People's Republic (April 2014 – September 2022)
* Novorossiya (May 2014 – May 2015)
* International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic

(Pro-)
Russian|

| Organizations|

* Russian Armed Forces
* Wagner Group
* Separatist forces
* List of equipment
* Army of the South-East
* Russian Orthodox Army
* Vostok Battalion
* Kalmius Brigade
* Sparta Battalion
* Somalia Battalion
* Prizrak Brigade
* Political parties and movements
* Donetsk Republic
* New Russia Party
* Communist Party of DPR
* Peace to Luhanshchina
* Borotba
* Antifascist Committee of Ukraine
* Ukrainian Choice
* The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov
* Eurasian Youth Union
* Night Wolves
* Don Cossacks
* Internet Research Agency
* Russian Imperial Movement

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Lead figures|

* Russian
* Vladimir Putin
* Dmitry Medvedev
* Vladislav Surkov
* Sergei Shoigu
* Crimean
* Sergey Aksyonov
* Vladimir Konstantinov
* Natalia Poklonskaya
* Donetsk
* Vladimir Antyufeyev
* Eduard Basurin
* Fyodor Berezin
* Igor Bezler
* Alexander Borodai
* Mikhail Chumachenko
* Igor Girkin
* Pavel Gubarev
* Ekaterina Gubareva
* Igor Khakimzyanov
* Alexander Khodakovsky
* Vladimir Kononov
* Arsen Pavlov†
* Vyacheslav Ponomarev
* Andrei Purgin
* Denis Pushilin
* Mikhail Tolstykh†
* Alexander Zakharchenko†
* Sergei Zhurikov
* Luhansk
* Alexander Bednov†
* Valery Bolotov†
* Aleksey Karyakin
* Aleksandr Kharitonov
* Arsen Klinchaev
* Sergey Kozlov
* Aleksey Mozgovoy†
* Leonid Pasechnik
* Igor Plotnitsky
* Gennadiy Tsypkalov†
* Kharkiv
* Yevhen Zhylin†
* Others
* Aleksandr Dugin
* Nelya Shtepa
* Oleg Tsaryov

Ukrainian|

| Organizations|

* Government of Ukraine
* 1st Yatsenyuk
* 2nd Yatsenyuk
* Groysman
* Ministry of Internal Affairs
* National Guard
* Azov
* Donbas
* Patrol Police
* Dnipro-1
* Armed Forces of Ukraine
* Ukrainian Ground Forces
* Territorial defense battalions
* Aidar
* Dnipro-2
* Kryvbas
* Rukh Oporu
* Ukrainian Air Force
* Ukrainian Air Assault Forces
* Security Service of Ukraine
* Alpha Group
* Euromaidan Press
* State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
* Volunteer battalions
* Right Sector

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Lead figures|

* Petro Poroshenko
* Oleksandr Turchynov
* Arseniy Yatsenyuk
* Volodymyr Groysman
* Andriy Parubiy
* Arsen Avakov
* Vitali Klitschko
* Oleh Tyahnybok
* Yuriy Lutsenko
* Valentyn Nalyvaichenko
* Valeriy Heletey
* Stepan Poltorak
* Mykhailo Koval
* Mykhailo Kutsyn
* Oleh Makhnitskyi
* Viktor Muzhenko
* Vitaly Yarema
* Oleh Liashko
* Dmytro Yarosh
* Rinat Akhmetov
* Ihor Kolomoyskyi
* Serhiy Taruta
* Ihor Baluta
* Semen Semenchenko
* Hennadiy Moskal
* Nadiya Savchenko
* George Tuka
* Pavlo Zhebrivskyi

* v
* t
* e

Political parties in the Donetsk People's Republic

* Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic
* Donetsk Republic
* Free Donbas
* Novorossiya Party

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* e

Russian nationalism

History|

| Expansionism,
imperialism and
Russification|

* 1500–1800
* Siberia
* Khanate of Sibir
* Central Asia
* North America
* Partitions of Poland
* Crimea, 1783
* Amur
* Caucasus
* Military occupations
* Crimea, 2014

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* Ukrainian language suppression
* Slavophilia and westernism
* Pochvennichestvo
* Black Hundreds
* Mladorossy
* Galician Russophilia
* White movement
* Smenovekhovtsy
* Solidarists
* 1993 constitutional crisis
* National Salvation Front
* Russian marches
* 2010 Manezhnaya Square riots [ru]
* 2013 Biryulyovo riots
* 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
* Russian invasion of Ukraine

Concepts|

* All-Russian nation
* Collector of Russian lands
* Emperor of all the Russias
* Little Russian identity
* Ethnic nationalism
* Eurasia
* Gayrope
* Holy Rus
* Moscow, third Rome
* Nuclear Orthodoxy
* Of all Rus' [Wikidata]
* Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality
* Orthodoxy or death!
* Russia for Russians
* Russian civilization
* Russian Idea
* Russian irredentism

* Russian-occupied territories
* Krymnash

* Russian soul
* "Russian world"
* Russophilia and Russophobia
* United and Indivisible Russia [ru; uk]

Ideologies|

* Eurasianism
* Far-right politics
* National Bolshevism
* Neo-Nazism
* Neo-Sovietism
* Neo-Stalinism
* Pan-Slavism
* Putinism
* Ruscism
* Soviet patriotism

Modern organizations|

| Active|

* Atomwaffen Division Russland
* Black Hundreds (1992)
* Club of Angry Patriots
* Angry patriots
* Donetsk Republic
* Essence of Time
* Ethnic National Union
* Eurasia Movement
* Eurasia Party
* Eurasian Youth Union
* Free Donbas
* Great Russia
* Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
* Lithuanian People's Party
* Narodny Sobor
* National Socialism / White Power
* Obnovlenie
* The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov
* Popular Resistance Association
* Right Bloc
* Rodina
* Russian All-People's Union
* Russian Imperial Movement
* Russians
* Russkiy Mir Foundation
* Serbian Party Oathkeepers
* Union of Orthodox Banner-Bearers
* United Russia
* Young Guard of United Russia

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Defunct|

* Artpodgotovka
* Combat Terrorist Organization
* Congress of Russian Communities
* Format18
* Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union
* Male State
* Movement Against Illegal Immigration
* Nation and Freedom Committee
* National Bolshevik Party
* National Russian Liberation Movement
* National Socialist Society
* Northern Brotherhood
* Pamyat
* People's National Party
* Russian All-National Union
* Russian National Socialist Party
* Russian National Union
* Russian National Unity
* New Russian National Unity
* The Savior
* Slavic Union
* Union of the Russian People

Personalities|

| After 1991|

* Viktor Alksnis
* Sergey Baburin
* Alexander Barkashov
* Alexander Belov-Potkin
* Dmitry Demushkin
* Aleksandr Dugin
* Dmitry Galkovsky
* Aleksandr Ivanov-Sukharevsky
* Konstantin Kasimovsky
* Yegor Kholmogorov
* Konstantin Krylov
* Vladimir Kvachkov
* Alexander Lebed
* Eduard Limonov
* Vyacheslav Maltsev
* Maxim Martsinkevich
* Zakhar Prilepin
* Vladimir Putin
* Dmitry Rogozin
* Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* Igor Shafarevich
* Dmitri Vasilyev
* Vladimir Zhirinovsky
* Gennady Zyuganov

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Before 1991|

* Ivan Ilyin
* Pyotr Krasnov
* Konstantin Rodzaevsky
* Mikhail Skobelev
* Ivan Solonevich
* Vasily Shulgin

Media|

* Fashist
* The Fourth Political Theory
* Foundations of Geopolitics
* History: Fiction or Science?
* The Last Will of a Russian Fascist
* Nash Put'
* "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians"
* "Rebuilding Russia [ru]"
* Sputnik and Pogrom
* "What Russia Should Do with Ukraine"

Opposition and criticism|

* Great Russian chauvinism
* Iazychie
* Nashism
* Ruscism
* Prison of peoples
* Pobedobesie
* Vatnik
* Volos Declaration

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