"Not Donbass, but the south-east of Ukraine". Historians – about the pre-revolutionary and Soviet past of Donetsk and Lugansk regions

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"Not Donbass, but the south-east of Ukraine". Historians – about the pre-revolutionary and Soviet past of Donetsk and Lugansk regions

To mark the decade since the beginning of the fighting in Ukraine, the present time has prepared a project on the Ukrainian regions in which Russia tried to destabilize in 2014 and which Vladimir Putin called "Novo-Russia". For this material we talked to historians about what to know about the pre-revolutionary and Soviet history of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.