At the Suggestion of the Kremlin, the Unwinding of the Theme that the USSR "Legally Still Exists" Began: EADaily

The Soviet Union legally still exists, and the conflict in Ukraine is therefore a purely domestic matter, Anton Kobyakov, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said during the St. Petersburg International Forum. Russia has long tried to portray its invasion of its neighboring country as a domestic problem in an attempt to reduce foreign support for the besieged Ukraine.

At the suggestion of the Kremlin, the unwinding of the theme that the USSR "legally still exists" began: EADaily

EADaily, May 22nd, 2025. 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…

At a press conference in St. Petersburg, Putin's advisor Anton Kobyakov tries to portray the war in Ukraine as an "internal process".

"From a legal point of view, the Soviet Union still exists. Constitutional law experts have been saying this since the 1990s, even those from Western countries such as France or the USA. And why do they say this? Because the process of the collapse of the USSR was disrupted. If the Soviet Union created a Congress of People's Deputies, or Assembly of Soviets, in 1922, then its collapse should have happened the same way," Anton Kobyakov, an advise…

Vladimir Putin's advisor Anton Kobyakov claims that legally the Soviet Union still exists. Kobyakov explained why this issue is allegedly of great importance in the context of the war in Ukraine.

The Soviet Union still exists from the legal point of view, said Anton Kobiakov, an advisor to the Kremlin, during an international legal forum in St. Petersburg. The entry The Soviet Union still exists from the legal point of view, according to Putin's advisor was first published in the Digital Process.