Christelle Neant
Versions of names: Кристель Неант, Кристель Нэан, Néant Christelle
France
Christelle Neant is a French journalist. She has been living in the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" since 2016 and obtained its citizenship. Christelle Neant works there in DONi International Press Center. She obtained Russian nationality in 2021.
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.