Patrick Baab
Versions of names: Патрик Вааб
Germany
Patrick Baab is a longtime editor at Norddeutscher Rundfunk - NDR Television and he was a lecturer in journalism at the University of Media, Communication, and Economics in Berlin. Following his alleged participation as an international observer in the sham referendum in territories occupied by Russia, the university terminated his employment contract. Baab claims he was in the occupied regions to do research as a journalist.
Corresponding elections
illegitimate
From 23 to 27 September 2022, the Russian forces organised a sham election process - pseudo-referendum as a pretext for the formal annexation of the regions of occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson by Russia. The annexation of the four regions was announced on 30 September 2022.