Igor Strelkov, a Russian officer who commanded part of Donetsk rebels at the start of the war, was speaker at the conference 'Ukrainian crisis and global politics' whose purpose is to work out the ideology of the war in Donbas, Sotsioportal reports May 17.
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Igor Strelkov, the top military ex-commander of the self-proclaimed \"Donetsk People's Republic\", delivers a press conference on July 28, 2014 in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.