Xavier Moreau
Versions of names: Ксавье Моро
France
Xavier Moreau is a former paratrooper officer who holds dual French-Russian citizenship. He owns the Moscow-based Sokol Holding that employs former members of French Army elite troops and Russian security services, as well as provides consultancy and security to French companies. He has authored books like "The new great Russia: From the collapse of the USSR to the return of Vladimir Putin" and "Ukraine - Why France was wrong".
Xavier Moreau runs the website and YouTube channel of Stratpol - Centre d’analyses politico-statégiques, promoting pro-Russian geopolitical content to primarily French audiences.
Corresponding elections
illegitimate
On 11 November 2018, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, located within the internationally recognised borders of Ukraine, held “elections” to elect a head of the “republic” and members of its “parliament”. The overwhelming majority of the world’s nations does not recognise the sovereignty of the Donetsk People’s Republic, while international institutions such as the OSCE ODIHR considered “elections” there as illegitimate and did not send international election observers there.
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.