BIRMINGHAM, UK, February 22 (IPS) – by Vladimir Putin recognition about the independence of two breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk following a surreal live broadcast of a security council meeting in the Kremlin. Sitting face-to-face with the 13-member council, Putin lamented and argued as one by one his top officials – including Dmitry Medvedev, the country’s former president and prime minister, and the country’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov – ascended to the throne. podium to provide the boss with “reason” for officially recognizing the two republics in the east of the country as independent states.
