Representatives of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbas have proposed changes to the Ukrainian law on the municipal elections scheduled for October 25 of this year as a precondition for the exchange of prisoners.

Leonid Harchenko, one of the five suspects in the crash of the MH17 flight of Malaysian aircraft, was detained by the DNR authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian service of the „BBC” broadcasts.

On December 18 of this year, the representatives of the self-proclaimed republics of Ukraine and Donbas failed to agree on topical agenda item at tripartite contact group, Kommersant informs.

Self-proclaimed Republics) Martin Sajdik has developed a new Donbass conflict resolution plan, citing M. Sajdik's interview to the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung, writes Ukraine's Leviy Bereg”.

A humanitarian crisis is occurring in Donbass (both in Ukraine's controlled areas and even in the Donetsk and Luhansk peoples' republics), according to a study conducted by the International Non-Governmental Organization The International Crisis Group (ICG) in Brussels.

This year on September 7th the "parliaments" of the Donetsk and Luhansk peoples' republics decided to organize "parliament" and presidential elections on November 11, informs the newspaper Leviy Bereg.

In 6 September, Parliament of the Luhansk People’s Republic made changes in the self-proclaimed constitution, prolonging the authority of the leader (president) and deputies from four to five years, reported Realnaya Gazeta.

Possibly, the self-proclaimed Donbass republics will postpone the scheduled elections of this year fall of "heads of state" and "parliaments".

On July 31, the Transnistrian Investigation Committee informed that its employees detained the former chairman of the Transnistrian Customs Committee (2012-2013) and the Minister of the Interior (2013-2015) Gennady Kuzmichev.

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia to pay 2.5 million EUR compensation to 1646 farmers and three agriculture companies, to whom Transdienster authorities has restricted access to their lands.