Rubles, passports and telephones. Thus the “Viceroy of Donbass” annexes the occupied territories

MOSCOW – They now call him “the Viceroy of Donbass”. Sergei Kirienko he is no longer just the first deputy head of the presidential administration, the most powerful decision-making body in the Russian Federation. He is the man who takes care of relations with the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and with all the Ukrainian territories occupied – here in Moscow they say “liberated” – by Russia.