Context: Member of the State Duma of Russia who voted to recognise the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic as independent states. Former so-called 'Prime Minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic', as such responsible for the separatist 'governmental' activities of the so-called 'government of the Donetsk People’s Republic', signatory of the Memorandum of Understanding on 'Novorossiya union'. Declared in Oct 2021 that separatist forces in Eastern Ukraine are 'Russian forces.' Member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. This state body is responsible for political and legal support of the aggressive war against Ukraine.