Irpin Declaration
The Irpin Declaration (; ) is an alleged political union between the Freedom of Russia Legion, the National Republican Army and the Russian Volunteer Corps formed on 31 August 2022. The existence of the National Republican Army has never been confirmed, and the Russian Volunteer Corps denies ever signing the declaration. History Formation The Declaration was signed in the Ukrainian city of Irpin on August 21, 2022, where earlier a battle was fought, where 3,000 Ukrainian defenders held off assaults from 30,000 Russian attackers in a fierce urban combat. The declaration formed a coalition between the Freedom of Russia Legion, National Republican Army, and the Russian Volunteer Corps, with the adoption of the White-blue-white flag by all parties, and the creation of a joint Political Center with the aim of representing their interests before the state authorities of different countries, and organizing a common information policy, headed by the Russian politician Ilya Ponomarev. ...
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Ilya Ponomarev
Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev (, ; born 6 August 1975) is a Russian people, Russian-Ukrainian people, Ukrainian politician who was a member of the Russian State Duma from 2007 to 2016. He was the only member of the State Duma not to vote in favour of the Russian gay propaganda law (he abstained) and to vote against Russia's Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexation of Crimea in March 2014. In 2015, while in the United States, Ponomarev was formally charged in Russia with embezzlement, which he called politically motivated. In 2016, he was impeached for not performing his duties, and he went into exile in Ukraine, where he obtained Ukrainian nationality law#Acquisition and loss of citizenship, Ukrainian citizenship in 2019.
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