" People of the mayor " Slavyansk Vyacheslav Ponomareva dismissed and detained, told reporters authorized militia. along with this, head of the Presidium of the Supreme Council proclaimed the Donetsk national Republic Denis Pushilin told ITAR-TASS that At this point of time " can neither assure nor refute this information ". According to a source in the government DND, the leadership of the people's Republic " this decision is not accepted", and now " with the Slavic poor communications, information about the arrest has the opportunity to be a provocation ". In may Ukrainian media, citing " Donetsk law enforcers stated that Ponomarev detained on the orders of the Minister of defence of the Donetsk national Republic, the commander of the host of Igor strelkov. Remember, Vyacheslav Ponomarev was declared by the mayor of Slovyansk April 13 during the storming of the building of the SBU. Then he tried to convince the local population to report suspicious persons, promised that the elections of the President of Ukraine does not take place, and banned in, the activities of three political parties - Impact, " Fatherland " and " Freedom ". A week later Ponomarev appealed to President of Russia centuries Putin with a request to enter to the region peacekeeping force for protection of the National guard and the Right sector ". In may, he said that the Donetsk national Republic after independence wants to closely cooperate with Russia, and among them on the issue of joining the Customs Union. In addition, he found himself in the center of attention in connection with the arrests in Slavyansk military experts from OSCE countries, which he offered to exchange for militias.
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