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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

DENIS PUSHILIN


 

Denis Pushilin the Chairman of the DPR Soviet

 Denis Pushilin


Then Chairman of the People's Council Denis Pushilin speaks at a Victory Day (9 May) rally in Donetsk.


Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic (unrecognized internationally)
In office
May 15, 2014 – July 18, 2014
Succeeded by
Andrei Purgin
Vice Chairman of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic
In office
November 14, 2014 – 4 September, 2015
Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic
Incumbent
Assumed office
4 September 2015
Preceded by
Andrei Purgin
Personal details
Born
9 May 1981 (age 34)
Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Nationality
Ukrainian
Political party
Spouse(s)
Elena Pushilina
Children
2
Religion


Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin (Russian: Дени́с Влади́мирович Пуши́лин, pronounced [dʲɪˈnʲis vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ pʊˈʂɨlʲɪn]; Ukrainian: Денис Володимирович Пушилін; born on May 9, 1981) is a politician who was the self-declared Chairman of the People's Soviet (Speaker of parliament) of the Donetsk People's Republic, and therefore, under the draft Constitution adopted on May 15, the self-declared republic's head of state.

  

COL Strelkov and Denis Pushilin, who calls himself the chairman of “People’s Republic of Donbass discuss their OSCE hostages with the press
Biography

Ukrainian media claimed that Pushilin's highest stage of formal education is secondary education. According to his (November 2013) autobiography at the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, in May 2014 Russia's ITAR-TASS (news agency) reported Pushilin had graduated from the Donbass Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

Prior to his political activism, Pushilin worked for a recent successor of the 1990s Russian Ponzi scheme company MMM, which cost its customers millions of dollars before it was disbanded in 1994. Pushilin never denied involvement in such schemes and affirmed that "pyramid schemes were legal in Russia at the time".

As a member of the "We Have One Goal" party Pushilin failed to win a seat in the 15 December 2013 repeat elections of the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election in simple-majority constituencies number 94 (located in Obukhiv) because got only 0.08% of the votes. Pushilin's (only 1 page long) election program did not contain any statement on a wanted change of Ukraine's current borders. According to his election information, in December 2013 Pushilin was "temporarily not working".

On 19 May 2014 Pushilin became the self-declared Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Speaker of parliament) of the Donetsk People's Republic, and therefore, under the draft Constitution adopted on May 15, the self-declared republic's head of state.

Pushilin has survived two assassination attempts so far, both occurring within a week on the 7th and 12th of June 2014. Pushilin was in Moscow on those dates, as was widely reported at the time.

While in Moscow in June 2014, Pushilin announced that enterprises in the areas claimed as the Donetsk People's Republic refusing to pay taxes to the republic would be "nationalized".
According to the Interfax agency, on 18 July 2014, Pushilin resigned from his post of the Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic.

From 14 November 2014 to 4 September 2015 he served as a Vice-Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic Soviet then he replaced Andrei Purgin and became the Chairman of the Soviet once again.

  

Head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko (2nd R, front) and senior official Denis Pushilin (3rd R, front) attend a commemoration ceremony at the site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plane crash near the village of Hrabove in Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 17, 2015. (Photo by Kazbek Basaev/Reuters)




Russia: Moment of silence for peace in Ukraine
Published on Jun 11, 2014
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M/S Protesters, two girls

C/U Girl

M/S Flags of Armenia, the Donetsk People's Republic, New Russia

C/U Sign reading "Obama terrorist"

M/S Front of rally

C/U Man near stage

SOT Denis Pushlin, Chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic (Russian): "We don't see anything bad in the word 'empire'. They try to impose on us that it's something detrimental. But the Russian Empire never had colonies. It is a big powerful country, which made all countries which joined it equal. What right have the Western countries that still have their colonies, to teach us democracy, teach us what in recent years we have seen with our eyes, what has become of Iraq, what has become of Libya, and now it is trying to do it with us. They will not succeed, we will make everything possible, but we need your support, we will stand up to the last drop of blood if needed."

M/S Crowd, press corps

C/U Sign reading "Fascism shall not pass"

M/S Woman wearing Eurasian Youth Union t-shirt

C/U T-shirt bearing picture of soldier in front of Russian flag, reading "battle Donbass"

M/S Crowd

M/S Man holding sign reading "Stop kill Donbass"

W/S Crowd

SCRIPT

Around 300 Muscovites assembled in Suvorov square on Wednesday to appeal for peace in the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine.

The protesters circulated a petition calling on the Russian government to formally recognise the republics as independent polities from Ukraine. They also collected money and supplies to be sent to Ukraine as humanitarian aid.

The rally was addressed by leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky and leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushlin and Pavel Gubarev. It was organised by the Eurasianist philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.

 

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