The “Belgorod People’s Republic” meme began circulating on Ukrainian ... Russia’s Belgorod region after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The name parodies the self-proclaimed Donetsk ...

The meme plays on the so-called “people’s republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk, the two proxy entities Russia sustained in eastern Ukraine after 2014 and later annexed outright. In August 2022, during a ...