The Soviet Union legally still exists, since the procedure for its dissolution in 1991 was violated, so the Ukrainian crisis is an internal issue. This was stated by Anton Kobyakov, Adviser to the President of Russia, following the results of the International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg.
"But if the USSR is not dissolved, then logically, from a legal point of view, it turns out that the Ukrainian crisis is an internal process... the collapse of the USSR should be given a proper legal assessment in order to understand modern events," Kobyakov said, quoted by TASS.
According to him, "the USSR legally exists somewhere, as constitutional law experts have been talking about for a long time, including in Western countries, in the USA, in France."
"They say so because the procedure of the so-called dissolution of the USSR was violated. If the Congress of People's Deputies, it is The Congress of Soviets in 1922 created the USSR, then it was necessary to dissolve it by decision of the Congress of these very deputies. And if the legal procedure was violated, then, it turns out, legally the USSR exists, as experts in constitutional law say," the presidential adviser noted.
Therefore, the conclusion of the Belovezhskaya Accord, according to which the Soviet Union was dissolved, looks "completely strange from a legal point of view," the presidential adviser noted. According to him, these acts were then ratified by the Supreme Soviets of the RSFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the BSSR, which "was not in their competence at all."
The XIII St. Petersburg International Legal Forum is being held from May 19 to 21.