Russian MPs will not monitor referendums in eastern Ukraine

Sergey Neverov (United Russia Party), vice speaker of the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, said that the parliament will not send observers for referendums in the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts in Ukraine, Interfax reports.

Leonid Slutsky, head of the Duma committee for the CIS, Eurasian integration and compatriots, said that presence of Russian lawmakers was unnecessary at the referendums. He added that the parliament will keep in touch with compatriots and the civil society of Donbass.