https://tass.ru/politika/24009075Translated to English:
<2025-05-21, 09:29<St. Petersburg International Legal Forum<Kobyakov pointed out the violation of the procedure for the dissolution of the USSR in 1991According to the presidential adviser, if the legal procedure was violated, then legally the Soviet Union exists, as constitutional law experts say.
MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. The procedure for dissolving the USSR in 1991 was violated, so the Soviet Union "legally still exists," said Russian presidential adviser Anton Kobyakov at a press conference following the International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg.
"The USSR does exist legally somewhere, as constitutional law experts have been saying for a long time, including in Western countries, in the USA, in France. They say this because the procedure for the so-called dissolution of the USSR was violated. If the Congress of People's Deputies, also known as the Congress of Soviets, created the USSR in 1922, then it should have been dissolved by a decision of the Congress of these same deputies. And if the legal procedure was violated, then it turns out that the USSR legally exists, as constitutional law experts say," Kobyakov said.According to him, the conclusion of the Belovezh Accords, according to which the USSR was dissolved, looks "completely strange from a legal point of view." "This act was later ratified by the Supreme Soviets of the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the BSSR, and this was not within their competence at all. But if the USSR was not dissolved, then logically, from a legal point of view, it turns out that the Ukrainian crisis is an internal process," the presidential adviser noted, adding that "the collapse of the USSR must be given a proper legal assessment in order to understand current events."
The 13th St. Petersburg International Legal Forum is being held from 19 to 21 May. The forum is being held by the Russian Ministry of Justice and Roscongress. As in previous years, it is being held at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg. TASS is the general information partner of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.
>>2277999It would just come back as the union though, it wouldn't be socialist.
With all that being said though I hope it does return because it'd be funny.
>>2277884> But if the USSR was not dissolved, then logically, from a legal point of view, it turns out that the Ukrainian crisis is an internal processNothingburger, they want a pat in the back over the Ukraine stuff and couldn't care less what the USSR stood for.
If anything the local bourgeoisie has gotten more legitimacy nationally lately and we're even further away from a USSR 2 or even a RFSR
>>2278706Yes. No. Kind of.
This is an extraordinary thing for the Kremlin to say, and we need to read between the lines to figure out what understand what they are really telling the West.
What Russia wants right now above anything is to solve the underlying issues that started the Ukraine crisis. They've been begging for a new security architecture in Europe, along the lines of a Yalta-like agreement.
But a new Yalta requires cooperation with the institutional Europeans that will neither accept a Ukrainian defeat nor engage with diplomacy with Russia at all, as this would de-legitimize their ruling parties.
So what does it mean when the Kremlin says the USSRs dissolution was illegal? its a warning. What they're really saying is that if Europe doesn't play ball with Russia on reorganizing spheres of power on the continent, Russia CAN and WILL do it themselves (legally!) through the framework of the USSR.
>>2278905>if Europe doesn't play ball with Russia on reorganizing spheres of power on the continent, Russia CAN and WILL do it themselves (legally!) through the framework of the USSR.Europe keep shooting themselves in the foot it's comical at this point
I can't see an end to the ukraine war without Russia taking at least the Novorossiya territories and if NATO screeches about it they'll use that card and may even release dirty secrets from the dissolution agreements. Anything more that that is wishful thinking
>>2278603>It's going to happen.Nothing ever happens
>The next leader after Cucktin will be either a military figurehead bonapartist who has to appease growing pro-Soviet sentimentOr he'll just do the way easier thing like Cucktin and increase state repression while giving porkie more and more power.
>>2279051This.
They always take the path of least resistance even if it spells their doom.
USSR 2.0 is coming but not by a legal loophole.
Three cheers for the New October Revolution
>>2280027le free market or some shit idk
yeltsin was drunk most of the time it probably makes more sense if you're always drunk
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