Jaromir Vasek
Versions of names: Jaromír Vašek, Jiří Vašek
Czech Republic
Jaromír Vašek is a correspondent of the Czech newspaper “Naše pravda” (Our truth) and he is allegedly the chairman of the Society of Friends of the Luhansk People's Republic and the Donbas People's Republic - a legal entity registered in Prague. After being referred by the Russian News agency TASS as an international election observer at the sham referendum in territories occupied by Russia, Vašek reacted by saying he was in the occupied regions as an independent 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.