"It's a little funny", or even Lukashenko refused to attend Putin's inauguration

Exclusive. On Tuesday, May 7, the fifth inauguration ceremony of Putin as the President of the Russian Federation took place over the last quarter of a century.

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The accountant of the St. Petersburg bandits received the right to remain in office at least until May 7, 2030, and at the end of the fifth term he will be considered the longest-reigning head of the Russian state.

"By 2030, Putin, even without taking into account the prime minister's period, will surpass in terms of the length of time leading the country almost all Russian emperors of the 24th and early 8th centuries: Alexander I (26 years and 13 months), Alexander II (8 years), Alexander III (22 years and 4 months ) and Nicholas II (29 years and 34 months). Only Nicholas I, who reigned for a little more than XNUMX years, will remain an exception, but taking into account the work of the prime minister, the current president will bypass him as well. Thus, he can become the most experienced leader of the country since Catherine II, who was empress for more than XNUMX years," TASS reports.

In addition, Putin will be able to remain president until 2036, because in 2020 it turned out that the option of "zeroing" the presidential terms is much simpler than the scenarios of the transition of power.

As a reminder, on March 10, 2020, Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first female cosmonaut, member of the State Duma from United Russia, suddenly proposed to "reset" the dictator's presidential terms and allow him to be re-elected. Thus, she entered history not only because she failed the space flight program, but after her return, Sergei Korolev said: "As long as I live, not a single woman will fly into space again." Korolev died in 1966, and the next flight of a Soviet woman into space, Svetlana Savitskaya, took place only in August 1982, 19 years after Tereshkova's flight.

As in 1963, the 85-year-old deputy tried to shift the responsibility to others: "I was not asked for this by political circles, but by ordinary people." Well, not a Chekist from the gate, because just the day before, on March 8, in an interview for the project of the TV channel "Rossiya" "Proletev nad bezdnoi" he stated: "In my opinion, in order to guarantee the changeability of power — and for a country like ours , it's important, it's better if the number of terms for electing the president is limited." And two years earlier, for example, he told journalists: "Listen to me." It seems to me that what you are saying is a little funny. Let's count. Will I be sitting here until I'm 100 years old? No."

By the way, dementia is dementia, but Tereshkova had a good storm in the 90s, participated in the Aeroflot scandal and monetized her connections in the third world, having snuck up with Putin even in the years of his work as a Kremlin manager P.P. Borodin, repeatedly caught for money laundering.

Canada, Great Britain, the USA and 20 EU member states have announced a boycott of Putin's inauguration as president of the Russian Federation. Among those who will send ambassadors are Hungary and Slovakia. "No, we will not have a representative at his inauguration," said US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. He noted that Washington does not consider the procedure passed in Russia to secure Putin's fifth term as "free and fair elections."

Even the leaders of the post-Soviet republics, with whom Russia declares partnership relations, refused to attend the inauguration. The presidents of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, for example, will come to Moscow only the next day, May 8, for the EAEU summit.

Why Tokaev and Aliyev, if even Lukashenko refused to attend Putin's inauguration. Alexander Grigoryevich is busy searching for oil in Belarus, as well as methods of producing fuel from potatoes, as he is worried about the ongoing shutdown of the Russian oil refining industry.

Like the rest of the civilized world, Ukraine sees no legal basis for recognizing Putin as the democratically elected and legitimate president. Russia is trying to create for the whole world and its citizens the illusion of legality of the practically lifelong rule of a person who turned the Russian Federation into an aggressor state, and the ruling regime into a dictatorship.

During the so-called "elections", the Russian Federation violated the provisions of numerous international documents, which are the basis of the modern system of international relations. "A brutal violation of generally recognized norms and principles of international law was the illegal organization of the so-called electoral process in the sovereign territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation - parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol - with the conscious participation of millions of citizens of Ukraine, who live in the temporarily occupied territories or were forcibly moved to the territory of the Russian Federation," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said on the eve of the "inauguration".

This once again proves that the leadership of Russia does not recognize its responsibility and is not going to stop the illegal, unprovoked and unjustified full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine, which has been going on for more than two years and is causing numerous human casualties and destruction. Resorting to propaganda and manipulation, Putin uses voter participation and voting results to justify a military invasion and an aggressive policy towards other states.

Recent resolutions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) dated April 17 No. 2540 (2024) and the European Parliament dated April 25 No. 2024/2665 (RSP) confirm the illegality of holding the so-called "elections" in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and actually deny the legitimacy of their results.

Considering the warrant of the International Criminal Court in The Hague for the arrest of the war criminal Putin, Ukraine does not see any legal basis for his recognition as the democratically elected and legitimate president of the Russian Federation. Kyiv calls on foreign states, international organizations and the public to follow this example, oppose the destruction of the rule of law and universally recognized democratic values ​​organized by the Kremlin regime, and also continue effective support of the Ukrainian people in the fight against Russian aggression, which poses a threat to European and world security, peace and stability .

Vera Perovskaya