Valery Bolotov

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Valery Bolotov
Валерий Болотов
Bolotov in 2014
Head of the Luhansk People's Republic[1]
In office 18 May 2014 – 14 August 2014
Prime Minister	Vasily Nikitin Marat Bashirov (acting)
Deputy	Sergey Tsyplakov
Preceded by	Himself as LPR's "People's Governor"
Succeeded by	Igor Plotnitsky
Personal details
Born	(1970-02-13)13 February 1970 Taganrog, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	27 January 2017(2017-01-27) (aged 46) Moscow, Russia
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	Party of Regions
Children	2
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Luhansk People's Republic
Years of service	2014–2017
Battles/wars	Russo-Ukrainian War 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine War in Donbas

Valery Dmitrievitch Bolotov (Russian: Вале́рий Дми́триевич Бо́лотов;^[a] Ukrainian: Вале́рій Дми́трович Бо́лотов; 13 February 1970 – 27 January 2017)^[1] was a Ukrainian pro-Russia militant. In 2014, he became a prominent belligerent in the War in Donbas after being elected as the "People's Governor" of the internationally unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic, which was a Russia-aligned separatist quasi-country within Ukraine at the time. In 2017, he was found dead inside of his home in Moscow, Russia, under disputed circumstances; the exact cause of his death remains undetermined.

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