Pro-Russian Rebels Demand Nationalities Commissioner Registration

Registration is set at $50, and a failure to apply results in deportation and/or citizenship revocation, as stated in the document.  The flyers have been translated by the National Conference Supporting Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry denounced the publishing and commented, "In the year 2014, after all of the miles traveled and all of the journey of history, this is not just intolerable; it's grotesque...It is beyond unacceptable, and any of the people who engage in these kinds of activities – from whatever party or whatever ideology or whatever place they crawl out of – there is no place for that". The Pro-Russian rebels have denied the creation of the leaflets.

The NCSJ has interpreted the documents in the below text:

Dear citizens of Jewish nationality!

Due to the fact that leaders of the Jewish Community of Ukraine support the Bandera junta in Kiev and are hostile to the Orthodox Donetsk Republic and its citizens, the main headquarters of the Donetsk Republic declares the following:

• Every citizen of Jewish nationality older than 16 years, residing in the territory of a sovereign Donetsk Republic has to go to Donetsk Regional Administrator to see the Nationalities Commissioner, Office 514, for registration. The registration fee is $50.

• Persons should have with them with cash in the amount of $50 for registration, a passport to mark their religion, and documents of family members, as well as ownership documents for their properties and vehicles.

• In case of failure to register, the perpetrators will lose their citizenship and will be deported outside the republic, with their property confiscated.