The topic raised the day before, on May 21, by the adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Anton Kobyakov, that the Soviet Union "legally still exists", since the procedure for its dissolution was violated, was continued. The head of the State Duma Committee on Family Protection, paternity, motherhood and Childhood Nina Ostanina said that the dissolution of the USSR was illegal, its legal status requires investigation.
Ostanina drew attention to the fact that in a referendum in 1991, the majority of citizens voted for the preservation of the USSR.
"That is, legally, politically, and from a human point of view, in fact, the termination of the existence of the Soviet Union was illegal, since no one gave authority to either [Stanislav] Neither Shushkevich, nor [Boris] Yeltsin, nor [Leonid] Kravchuk to sign the so-called Belovezhskaya Agreement. And until today, this is a legally controversial document," Ostanina told TASS, adding that she "absolutely agrees with the presidential adviser."
"I think we should still organize an investigation today. And if the presidential adviser has already expressed this position, then it seems to me that it will not be up to us. And we are ready to make a political decision, we will talk about it in the State Duma," said the deputy, a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
EADaily adds that the statement by Putin's adviser Kobyakov was made at a press conference following the International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg.
"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 that the USSR exists legally, as experts in constitutional law say," Kobyakov said, quoted by TASS.
He pointed out that the conclusion of the Belovezhskaya Accord, under 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, the BSSR, and it was not in their competence at all. 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," said the adviser to the head of state, stressing that "the collapse of the USSR should be given a proper legal assessment in order to understand modern events."