The acceptance of documents from candidates for the posts of heads of cities and districts of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic will begin on the first day of the weekend, said on the last working day of the week the head of the Central election Commission DND Roman Lygin.

Local elections in the DNR are required to complete 18 October. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko have said before, that Donetsk and Lugansk are obliged to dispense with the holding of local elections, and tried to convince them to immediately begin discussions on the modalities of their conduct according to the Ukrainian laws. The Ukrainian Government has appointed elections to Local authorities on 25 October. The authorities DND and LNR many times stated about the conduct of local elections regardless of the wishes of Kiev.

"Nineteenth of (September) will begin to accept documents from the candidates," said Lagin on a preliminary vote on the election of a single candidate from the public movement "Donetsk Republic" in Makeevka.

at rallies in early April of this past year the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup, announced the development of " people's republics ". After held in may referendum of the Republic declared its sovereignty, put together their own authorities. The second of November in DND and LNR elections of heads of republics and deputies of the parliaments.

Kiev DND and LNR will not recognize. The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the republics. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began about 7, 9 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

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