Talk:Luhansk Oblast

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Is the majority Russian-speaking? Including rural areas?

To the best of my knowledge, yes. Rural residents speak either Russian or Surzhyk. Ukrained 19:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Autonomy"

Who exactly declared autonomy in November 2004? The article leaves this open-ended; has this declaration been repealed? —Michael Z. 2005-04-19 02:08 Z

Since nobody answers the question of Mzajac, I removed the following passage:
On November 26, 2004 the Luhansk Oblast declared its autonomy and asked to be admitted into the Russian Federation.many
and the reasons are:
  • no logic in there - even if the oblast was declared an autonomy, - it doesn't mean it can be admitted into anywhere
  • Ukraine is a unitarian state, no oblast can declare itself an autonomy (not to mention independent) without the all-national constitutional reform; any claim of international self-dedinition made in other way is a legal case of separatism and partition
  • as far as I know, all "separatist" claims in Donbas were later dismissed by their authors as "unofficial" and "political protest only"
  • according to the official statement of Russian government (regarding South Ossetia case), no separatist part of a neighboring country may be admitted into federation without an approval of that country.

Ukrained 19:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

It is needless to go into details of this but you were right to remove what was written here. The events are covered briefly in the third paragraph of the chapter Orange_revolution#The_protests. If anyone's interested in writing a separate article on these events, s/he could go into details. --Irpen 01:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I think that what the sentence wanted to say was that the situation as left in a limbo. In actuality, Ukraine is not that of an unitary state. Look at Krym Republic.Constantzeanu 20:14, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
You're actually wrong. As per Art.2 of the Constitution of Ukraine, Ukraine is the unitary state. As for the where the situation was left... let me speculate that Donbas is not really a separatist problem (Crimea is): those Donetsk guys need the whole Ukraine for the plans of their minders. Best wishes, Ukrained

[edit] The flag

The status of the flag is unclear. To the best of my knowledge, the oblasts of Ukraine may have neither flag nor coat of arms - unlike cities. Crimea, Kiev and Sevastopol are the official exclusions. Ukrained 19:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

You are mistaken. Oblasts do have flags and Coats of Arms. How much this has to do with heraldical rules is a totally different question and you are right finding this strange, since most oblasts are more or less artificial creatures of the Soviet administrative reform of end-20s. --Irpen 00:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)