Communists Propose To Recognize DPR, LPR As Independent, Sovereign States

On Wednesday, in the State Duma, communist deputies proposed to recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics as independent and sovereign states.

"To quarrel Russians on the borders of Russia and Ukraine is the golden dream of the Anglo-Saxons. I believe that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are one people, with a common history, faith and victories. And those who offer to quarrel us there are the criminals themselves. We must do everything not to follow this path.

We made a proposal [State Duma] to recognize the Donetsk and Luhansk republics. This does not provoke a war, it provokes the defense of our citizens, because there are already 600,000 citizens of the Russian Federation there," General Secretary of Russian Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov said.