Source: Kremlin.ru
Nearly three years into the war in eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics (DNR and LNR, respectively) are making a renewed attempt to attract foreign tourists to their internationally unrecognized statelets—with support from one of Russia’s most famous crooners.
Joseph Kobzon, a celebrated singer and member of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, is leading an effort to memorialize the remnants of eastern Ukraine’s once-thriving heavy industry in the latest attempt to support tourism in the Russia-backed separatist republics.
Last week, an exhibit entitled “The Infrastructural Heritage of Donbass” opened at the State Duma in Moscow. The …read more
Source: Global Voices
