Leaders "channel four" in the course of the conversation focused its attention on the constitutional reform in Ukraine and the organization of local elections in the Donbass, informs a press-service of the Kremlin.

"Careful attention was paid to the problems of constitutional reform in Ukraine and the organization of local elections in the Donbass, as well as socio-economic recovery of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, a major obstacle which, as said the President of the Russian Federation, is an actual blockade of these areas ", - is informed in the report.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Thursday sent the draft of the constitutional changes on decentralization for examination to the constitutional court. The project does not provide for a special status for certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, but only prescribes that he be Appointed a special legislative act. The rule of the sequence of local self-government in separate districts of Donbass on the basis of the law is proposed to consolidate the transitional provisions of the Constitution.

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