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The article depicts (from Ukrainian and American sources) Pushilin in an absolutely negative light (MMM member - in the 90ies, where he was mostly underage (!) and Putin's agent, for which there is no proof). Hence I added the NPOV dispute tag. Although he seems to be a member of the controversial MMM company, this is apparently not the same fraudulent MMM pyramid from the 90ies, which is defunct since 1997 (when Pushilin was 16). I read there was a political party founded by MMM members, where Pushilin is (or was) a member. [1] I think information about his education and career is more appropriate in such a WP article.--Mdphddr (talk) 18:18, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
Education? Career? This guy has none of those. Silvio1973 (talk) 19:32, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
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With respect to people who started this article, I have one remark. Maybe the text on the company MMM might be true, but the following sentence:
"Until he suddenly appeared as a leader of the separatists, Pushilin was virtually unknown in the region, giving rise to speculation that like most of the separatist leaders he is an agent of Putin's government.[3]"
is highly biased. The source comes from the mainstream media news webpage, where no further firm proofs of any of these claims is mentioned. Therefore the given link is a not a source which can be used in encyclopedic context. I will delete the aforesaid sentence from the article, if anyone has firmer proofs please submit links and/or comments before reverting. 2A00:C440:20:F73:E077:A78E:1601:F5F0 (talk) 14:22, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
In any country with diffenent ethnics and languages, it is absolutely unnormal that a given name is "translated". It is therefore unsensible and "svidomost" POV to "translate" the name into Ukrainian. It would be crazy to call Vladimir Putin "Volodimir Putin", equally Mr. Pushilin does not have two names, a Russian and an Ukrainian. This only reflects fanaticism of Ukrainian right wing extremism.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.231.145.162 (talk) 18:22, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
Denis Pushilin is considered a terrorist by the Ukrainian State which is the only legitimate power in the country, therefore calling him an "politician" is either a big euphemism, at worse simply wrong. Also, calling "politicians" the criminals who are at the head of those terrorist organizations responsible for the deaths of thousands of people is giving legitimacy to them and Wikipedia is not the place for this kind of propaganda. The elections in those territories were forbidden to international observers, there is no political life in those occupied territories, no political opposition of course, nor is there any democracy so the names of "politicians", "republic", etc are used in vain here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thibaud Ochem (talk • contribs) 16:25, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
https://www.axios.com/telegram-ukraine-russia-separatists-evacuation-23c418ef-cd60-4ab7-afdf-6f3260102a4a.html Victor Grigas (talk) 00:34, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Denis Pushilin's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Newsweek":
'I familiarized myself (with the leak),' he said. 'A curious document. I can say that it is not him.'
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 12:22, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
The first paragraph ends with a statement that he ran a ponzi scheme without citing a source. 103.129.189.62 (talk) 02:55, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
Multiple credible sources, including a video posted by Denis Pushilin himself, confirm that Pushilin fled Donetsk on 10 September. why does the article not reflect this or permit editing? 2600:1700:6010:43D0:432D:AFF2:65F7:2A67 (talk) 21:12, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
The article uses language describing Pushilin as a normal politician in a normal state, while no WP:RS describe the DPR as a normal state. Instead, reliable sources describe it as a “puppet state”, “quasi-state” or similar. Rsk6400 (talk) 16:40, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
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Change "Acting Head of the Donetsk People's Republic (Russia)" to "Acting Head of the Donetsk People's Republic (Ukraine)".
Saying that it is part of Russia is Putinist propaganda, and a violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity. Wikipedia should not be peddling Putinist propaganda. 2401:7000:CB5D:8200:D05:DE94:B3D7:DEFD (talk) 23:49, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
In the infobox, it lists his position pre- and post-annexation as if they're different things, and says his current term was "preceded by himself". That doesn't seem to make sense, and the source for this is a link to the Kremlin's official website, which doesn't really say anything like that, from what I can understand. What's going on with that? HappyWith (talk) 19:08, 28 February 2023 (UTC)