“Union state”, integration. Minsk followed this meeting with particular attention. According to the USCC’s sources in the Ukrainian special services, the illegitimate President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, feared that he might be traded between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin during the talks, and even demanded assurances from the Russian president that nothing alike would happen.
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Falsifications and intimidation: how Russia held illegitimate election in the occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions
On Sunday, September 19, the election to the State Duma, which lasted three days, ended in Russia. Apart from information about mass fraud and forced voting in favor of the ruling United Russia party, the Kremlin’s “expression of will” is a challenge to the civilized world.
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Russia-Belarus military exercises 2021: training for assault operations in densely populated areas with the use of Russian equipment
According to the USCC’s sources in the Ukrainian special services, Russia is taking active measures to expand its military presence in Belarus. Since March Russia has intensified joint military exercises of units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, introducing modern models of weapons and military equipment of Russian production.
Russia has not returned to its permanent location all the units involved in large-scale military exercises earlier this year, but has only increased its contingent in Crimea.
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How, escaping from sanctions, Russia itself does not recognize Crimea as Russian
Despite loud Russian celebrations on the occasion of the “return” (and, in fact, occupation) of Crimea, the peninsula has been recognized only formally for eight years at the Russian level.