Valery Bolotov

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Valery Dmitrievitch Bolotov (Russian: Валерий Дмитриевич Болотов; Ukrainian: Валерій Дмитрович Болотов, romanized: Valerii Dmytrovych Bolotov; 13 February 1970 – 27 January 2017) was a Ukrainian pro-Russia militant. In 2014, he became a prominent belligerent in the War in Donbas after being elected as the "People's Governor" of the internationally unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic, which was a Russia-aligned separatist quasi-country within Ukraine at the time. In 2017, he was found dead inside of his home in Moscow, Russia, under disputed circumstances; the exact cause of his death remains undetermined.

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