LPR head schedules local elections for November 1

LUHANSK. July 6 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) is planned to elect mayors and district heads on November 1, LPR head Igor Plotnitsky has said.

"I am scheduling elections of the heads of towns and districts in the Luhansk People's Republic for November 1, 2015," the Luhansk information center quoted an official statement by Plotnitsky as saying on Monday.