Sentence examples for rebel republics from inspiring English sources

The rebel republics marked May 9th in neo-Soviet style with a pompous military parade and orange and black ribbons filling the streets.

The Minsk agreement stipulates that the rebel republics withdraw their forces from the demarcation line laid down in the September ceasefire, and that Kiev withdraws its forces from the current de facto frontline.

"We, the United States stand by you on your journey to a secure, free, democratic and once again united Georgia," he said, adding that the US would not recognise Georgia's Moscow-backed rebel republics.

President Poroshenko told Ukrainians this week that the threat of full-scale invasion remained, asserting that some 50,000 Russian troops were massed on Ukraine's eastern borders, with a further 9,000 inside the self-declared rebel republics.

The rebel republics want the vote before a difficult winter, when Russia may not pick up the bills as it is finding paying for Crimea hard enough.

Ukraine's SBU security service said it had arrested 29 people in and around the Black Sea port who were planning to create a independent region similar to the self-declared rebel republics in Luhansk and Donetsk.

Violence between Georgia and the rebel republic, South Ossetia, has flared recently after months of relative calm.

On Wednesday, the rebel republic's education and sport ministers held its first youth billiards and bowling tournament.

By using ruthless force to bring Chechnya to heel, and nearly flattening Grozny, the rebel republic's capital, the Putin administration has radicalised its population.

"We are at war with Russian troops, we do not commit such crimes against the civilian population," said Aslan Maskhadov, the president of the rebel republic.

Fifty-eight-year-old Veronica Zinici, a pensioner from the rebel republic of Transnistria, recently traveled to the Moldovan capital Chișinău for medical treatment.