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Journal: Region Regional Studies of Russia Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Year: 2021

Introduction Victoria Donovan (bio) and Iryna Sklokina (bio) Introduction On 24 March 2021, as we were finalizing the contributions to this collection, Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's Council for National Security and Defense, announced that Donbas no longer existed: "The word 'Donbas' is not written in any of our state's regulatory or legal documents. This is a definition that the Russian Federation has imposed upon us: 'the Donbas people,' 'the choice of Donbas,' 'Donbas will not b