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When the US ‘recognized’ E. Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk as independent

It looks like a legalistic joke, but US authorities formally recognized independence of the territory, part of which is now Donbass, back in 1959 when adopting the Captive Nations Week Resolution, reissued annually for the last 56 years. The Captive Nations Week Resolution (also known as Public Law 86-90) was introduced under President Dwight D. Eisenhower over half a century ago, reports Global Research, but has retained its relevance and significance until now.”

The document passed by both the Senate and House of Representatives in 1959 recognized the ‘Don’ territory that includes the lands where the eastern Donetsk and Lugansk Regions are situated - as well Ukraine’s Zaporozhye Region - as core countries of a Cossackia, a subnational entity Washington placed on the territories of modern Russia and Ukraine.”

The term Cossackia is a purely Western one. US political convention uses it as a geopolitical term to describe the regions where Cossacks usually lived under the Russian Empire, USSR and modern Russia. Apart from three Ukrainian regions, it defines vast territories along the lower course of the Don River, lands to the north and east from the Sea of Azov, Russia’s current Krasnodar and Rostov Regions, and the Stavropol Territory.”

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