“Whose Luhansk and Luhansk region?” — a journalistic investigation from the series “The Real History with Akim Halimov.” Russian troops began occupying the Luhansk region back in 2014. The Kremlin and Putin’s propagandists persistently call these lands “originally Russian.” Few people know that Russia has actually been competing for these territories for centuries. Who owns the Luhansk region? What crimes did Moscow commit to occupy it? Journalist Akim Halimov will answer these questions.