Putin's Assistant Claims that Legally the USSR Still Exists, Allegedly Due to Formal Violations in 1991. How Can the Russian Authorities Really Revive the Soviet Union?

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At the end of May 2025, several Russian public figures, including adviser Putin Anton Kobjakov, stated that the USSR still existed from a legal point of view, and the dissolution of the State by the federal republics allegedly took place in violation of international law. At the request of the Medusa, historian Alexei Uvarov explained how the Soviet Union could legally be dissolved, what role the Belovez Accords played in the dissolution, and at…

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Vladimir Putin's advisor calls the war in Ukraine an "internal process" as the Soviet Union still exists.

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Russian Special Adviser Vladimir Putin, Anton Kobiakov, claims that the Soviet Union still exists in a legal sense, and the history of Aleksei Uvarov contradicts this theory