The legal procedure for the collapse of the USSR was allegedly violated, and therefore the Soviet Union continues to exist. The Russian Federation's full-scale war against Ukraine is supposedly an "internal process." This cynical statement was made by Anton Kobyakov, an advisor to the Russian leader, at the final press conference of the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.
Points of attention
- An advisor to the Russian leader made a cynical statement about the existence of the USSR and acknowledged a new reason for the invasion of Ukraine.
- Anton Kobyakov sees a need for a new legal assessment of the events of 1991 in order to better understand current events.
- The advisor's theses directly contradict international law, which recognizes Ukraine as an independent state with internationally recognized borders.
Putin has been given a new reason for invading Ukraine
Kobyakov justified his thesis by saying that, according to him, the legal procedure was violated during the collapse of the Soviet Union, because the USSR was not dissolved by the same body that created it - the Congress of People's Deputies. Therefore, in his opinion, the USSR supposedly "legally exists somewhere and continues to exist."
He also falsely reported that constitutional law experts from France and the United States had allegedly repeatedly said this.
This, according to Kobyakov, gives grounds to view Russia's war against Ukraine not as external aggression, but as an "internal process." He believes that a new legal assessment of the events of 1991 is needed in order to better "understand current events".
Such statements directly contradict the norms of international law, in particular the UN Charter, according to which Ukraine is an independent state with internationally recognized borders.
