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The republics were established in early Soviet Russia after the collapse of the Russian Empire.On 15 November 1917, Vladimir Lenin issued the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia, giving Russia's minorities the right to self-determination. [7]
Ukraine was briefly declared a people's republic in 1917. [15] The Khanate of Khiva [16] and the Emirate of Bukhara, [17] both territories of the former Russian Empire, were transformed into people's republics in 1920. In 1921, the Russian protectorate of Tuva became a people's republic, [18] followed in 1924 by neighbouring Mongolia. [19]
The Russian Republic, [f] referred to as the Russian Democratic Federative Republic [g] in the 1918 Constitution, was a short-lived state which controlled, de jure, the territory of the former Russian Empire after its proclamation by the Russian Provisional Government on 1 September (14 September, N.S. Tooltip New Style) 1917 in a decree signed by Alexander Kerensky as Minister-Chairman and ...
The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; Russian: Донецкая Народная Республика (ДНР), romanized: Donetskaya Narodnaya Respublika (DNR), IPA: [dɐˈnʲetskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə]) is a republic of Russia, comprising the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, [7] [8] with its capital in Donetsk.
An official government translation of the Constitution of Russia from Russian to English uses the term "constituent entities of the Russian Federation". For example, Article 5 reads: "The Russian Federation shall consist of republics, krais, oblasts, cities of federal significance, an autonomous oblast, and autonomous okrugs, which shall have equal rights as constituent entities of the Russian ...
On 21 February 2022, Russia officially recognized the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic and, three days later, started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, during which they occupied territory in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, with formal military occupations beginning in the first week. [19]
Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by land area, and extends across eleven time zones; sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d] Russia is the most populous country in Europe and the ninth-most populous country in the world.
The Luhansk People's Republic [d] (LPR; Russian: Луга́нская Наро́дная Респу́блика (ЛНР), romanized: Luganskaya Narodnaya Respublika (LNR), IPA: [lʊˈɡanskəjə nɐˈrodnəjə rʲɪˈspublʲɪkə]) is a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk.