Former so-called ‘First Deputy Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Luhansk’ until January 2016. Also, formerly the so-called ‘Acting Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Luhansk’, and former spokesman of the ‘Army of the Southeast’. Responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the People’s Republic of Luhansk’. Responsible for the statement of the Army of the Southeast that the Ukrainian presidential election cannot take place in the ‘People’s Republic of Luhansk’ due to the ‘new’ status of the region.