Just three days after the runoff round of the Ukrainian presidential elections, when the Electoral Commission confirmed that incumbent President Petro Poroshenko lost, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to provide expedited Russian citizenship to Ukrainians living in the “certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine” (ORDLO) – this is how the occupied territories around the East-Ukrainian cities of Luhansk and Donetsk are officially called.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on Nov. 9, 2018 people stand as they wait for Denis Pushilin, acting leader of the Russia-backed separatists in Donetsk region, campaigning meeting and the concert in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
