Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Flags used in Russian-occupied Ukraine" in English language version.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)But Vladimir Kornilov, the world's leading – and only – specialist on the short-lived state (and author of The Assassinated Dream, a book on its history), does not agree. The myths that grew around the Republic, [Kornilov] added, led to distorted views of its history, and 'pictures of some flag which was never actually used.' In fact, the flag used by the Donetsk People's Republic is, with alterations, that of the International Movement for Donbas or the Interdvizheniye Donbasa, an organisation whose roots started only in August 1989, in a lecture theater of Donetsk University.