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You got any data to support that point of view?
Russia to review 1991 decision to recognise independence of Baltic states
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If the west could do anything to Putin they would have done it long time ago.
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That says something about the defense industry, not on the dependence of their economies on defence sales.....
This does
OEC: United States (USA) Profile of Exports, Imports and Trade Partners:
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The next step: reversing the dissolution of USSR. That will work really well.
That will be good for the world set on fire by the zionazis and their slaves.
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I think all this is linked to Arctic and Far East Oil reserves mainly.
Russian Federation is powerful but it cant fight war on all the fronts.
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Lithuanian envoy says reports on Baltic independence probe in Russia are "propaganda" - EN.DELFI
Monday, July 6, 2015 Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas calls Russian media reports of a probe allegedly launched in Russia into the recognition of the Baltic states' independence in 1991 "propaganda".
Lithuanian Ambassador Remigijus Motuzas, Russian President Vladimir Putin Lithuanian Ambassador Remigijus Motuzas, Russian President Vladimir Putin © RIA/Scanpix
"I believe that media report was made for propaganda purposes, made at the initiative of a certain interested group of people," the diplomat said in an interview with BNS. Motuzas drew attention to the fact that the embassy usually receives information about Russia's internal policy decisions related to Lithuania, and it did not in this case. It shows that possibilities for really carrying out such a probe are vague, he said. "We all realize it's impossible in terms of the legal and other aspects," the ambassador said.
"Our president and our foreign minister expressed their opinions in very due time, and I think we need to respond." Russia’s Prosecutor General's Office initially confirmed they were looking into a request by Russian MPs to review the 1991 decision to recognize the independence of the Baltic states, but later announced that it had "no legal prospects".
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov was also surprised at the news about the controversial request. Motuzas told BNS that Lithuania was trying to develop cultural relations with Russia as his embassy organizes two cultural events every month. "Many Russian people attend our events. Russians interested in culture, especially in professional music, come, and the other group of people consists of many friends of Lithuania," the diplomat said.
The Lithuanian ambassador said, nevertheless, that a political dialogue with Russia remains tense due to Crimea's annexation and its support of separatists in eastern Ukraine. But Lithuania and Russia continue exchanging information in the areas of law enforcement and customs. Commenting on the fact that Lithuania was the only country not to have sent a single diplomatic representative to the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, Motuzas said he received more reactions from partners in Europe and not Russian officials.
"Honestly, there were more questions from EU ambassadors than from colleagues from the Kremlin. They expressed their surprise that we have an embassy here in Moscow and that we should send somebody. These were, of course, friendly contemplations, but there were more expressions of surprise from the ambassadors of those states that have friendly relations with Russia," Motuzas said. "I did not receive a single official inquiry from Russia's Foreign Ministry. It was only noted during the presentation of my credential to Vladimir Putin in late April that we won’t attend the parade. But it was done rather jokingly," the Lithuanian ambassador added.
Speaking about the fact that Russia extended the food embargo for EU and several other countries, Motuzas said that quite a lot of time would be needed to restore normal economic relations with Russia but that would depend on Russia itself. "Of course, the loss of traditional markets in Russia is a certain problem.
It will be difficult to return since the Russian government has created favorable conditions for local producers, and exporters from Asia and South America are trying to fill in the empty niches," Motuzas said. Russia is taking active interest in energy projects in Lithuania and the EU, the ambassador noted. In his words, Russian officials remind during private conversations that Lithuania has the opportunity to use Gazprom gas and can also negotiate "certain" prices and conditions with Russia. Motuzas assumed his ambassadorial position in Russia on May 28.
Monday, July 6, 2015 Lithuanian Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas calls Russian media reports of a probe allegedly launched in Russia into the recognition of the Baltic states' independence in 1991 "propaganda".
Lithuanian Ambassador Remigijus Motuzas, Russian President Vladimir Putin Lithuanian Ambassador Remigijus Motuzas, Russian President Vladimir Putin © RIA/Scanpix
"I believe that media report was made for propaganda purposes, made at the initiative of a certain interested group of people," the diplomat said in an interview with BNS. Motuzas drew attention to the fact that the embassy usually receives information about Russia's internal policy decisions related to Lithuania, and it did not in this case. It shows that possibilities for really carrying out such a probe are vague, he said. "We all realize it's impossible in terms of the legal and other aspects," the ambassador said.
"Our president and our foreign minister expressed their opinions in very due time, and I think we need to respond." Russia’s Prosecutor General's Office initially confirmed they were looking into a request by Russian MPs to review the 1991 decision to recognize the independence of the Baltic states, but later announced that it had "no legal prospects".
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov was also surprised at the news about the controversial request. Motuzas told BNS that Lithuania was trying to develop cultural relations with Russia as his embassy organizes two cultural events every month. "Many Russian people attend our events. Russians interested in culture, especially in professional music, come, and the other group of people consists of many friends of Lithuania," the diplomat said.
The Lithuanian ambassador said, nevertheless, that a political dialogue with Russia remains tense due to Crimea's annexation and its support of separatists in eastern Ukraine. But Lithuania and Russia continue exchanging information in the areas of law enforcement and customs. Commenting on the fact that Lithuania was the only country not to have sent a single diplomatic representative to the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, Motuzas said he received more reactions from partners in Europe and not Russian officials.
"Honestly, there were more questions from EU ambassadors than from colleagues from the Kremlin. They expressed their surprise that we have an embassy here in Moscow and that we should send somebody. These were, of course, friendly contemplations, but there were more expressions of surprise from the ambassadors of those states that have friendly relations with Russia," Motuzas said. "I did not receive a single official inquiry from Russia's Foreign Ministry. It was only noted during the presentation of my credential to Vladimir Putin in late April that we won’t attend the parade. But it was done rather jokingly," the Lithuanian ambassador added.
Speaking about the fact that Russia extended the food embargo for EU and several other countries, Motuzas said that quite a lot of time would be needed to restore normal economic relations with Russia but that would depend on Russia itself. "Of course, the loss of traditional markets in Russia is a certain problem.
It will be difficult to return since the Russian government has created favorable conditions for local producers, and exporters from Asia and South America are trying to fill in the empty niches," Motuzas said. Russia is taking active interest in energy projects in Lithuania and the EU, the ambassador noted. In his words, Russian officials remind during private conversations that Lithuania has the opportunity to use Gazprom gas and can also negotiate "certain" prices and conditions with Russia. Motuzas assumed his ambassadorial position in Russia on May 28.
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Law professor: By questioning Baltic independence, Russia would acknowledge its responsibility for Soviet crimes - EN.DELFI
Eglė Samoškaitė, DELFI EN Tuesday, July 7, 2015
A piece of recent news from Russia raised particularly many eyebrows last week. Media reported that the Office of Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation took up to investigate the legitimacy of the independence of the Batlic states.
Eyebrows were raised even in the Kremlin. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov soon said the investigation was "hard to understand" and distanced the Kremlin from the initiative. The Prosecutor General's Office, too, said it had no legal merit and was only taken up because prosecutors are obliged to follow up on requests from Duma members.
According to a Lithuanian professor of law, such an enquiry has quite paradoxical implications. If, say, Russia found that the Baltic independence was illegal and tried to refer to the ruling in the international arena, it would acknowledge the fact that it is not a successor to USSR law, but a continuer of the said law.
This would mean that Russia would take full responsibility for the occupation of the Baltic states, something it strongly denied up until now. But let’s start from the beginning.
The act of Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania was signed and adopted on 11 March 1990.
The Soviet Union recognized Lithuanian independence on 6 September 1991, after a failed coup in Moscow.
At that time, 57 countries had already acknowledged Lithuania's independence.
The USSR officially ceased existing on 8 December 1991, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin, President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and President of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich signed an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union.
Even so, on June this year two members of the Russian State Duma, Yevgeny Fyodorov and Anton Romanov, representing the United Russia political party of President Vladimir Putin, sent a letter to Russia’s prosecutor general’s office. The letter contained a request to investigate the lawfulness of the State Council of the USSR which “inflicted great harm to the sovereignty, safety and defence of the country”. They were also outraged that the State Council of the USSR accepted the independence of the Baltic states.
The Russian Prosecutor General‘s Office announced that it would investigate whether or not the State Council of the Soviet Union was a legitimate state institution.
What would happen if the Russian Prosecutor‘s Office ruled that the State Council of the USSR was founded unlawfully?
According to Justinas Žilinskas, professor of international and EU law at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, absolutely nothing.
“In my mind, there would be no legal consequences for Lithuania, because the independence of Lithuania and the Baltic states is not a matter of the State Council of the USSR, but a matter of international law. Lithuania didn‘t secede from the Soviet Union, it re-established its independence, which was lost because of the annexation and occupation in 1940," Mr. Žilinskas said.
“What the USSR institutions were doing is their own internal matter. They were deciding over something that had already happened – the independence was already re-established, and the USSR had to make a decision of their own, and so they did,” the professor added.
According to him, it would be the same if a bandit were holding a person against their will in a flat and then, after the prisoner had escaped, the bandit would say that because of the prisoner’s long confinement, he had become a slave. In this case, the prisoner would need some sort of special permission to escape.
“I think that the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office is doing something similar to a expert-historical examination on the activities of Soviet institutions during its demise. Furthermore, the USSR as well as the State Council of the USSR do not exist anymore, and haven't existed for a long time,” the law professor states.
Mr. Žilinskas goes on to highlight that even if the Russian Prosecutor General's Office were to announce that the State Council of the USSR acted illegitimately, it would not have any influence on neither the independence of Lithuania or the international treaties with Russia.
“That is, unless Russia decides to denounce all international agreements, terminate all political relations and start a circus based on this hypothetical decision. Formally, Russia is in its right as a country to do so, but it should not forget that every international agreement has terms for denunciation, it’s not a straightforward procedure,” Mr. Žilinskas says.
Lastly, the professor notes that international treaties matter very little to Russia and its predecessor, the USSR. International treaties did not have significance for Russia when it decided to occupy its neighbours in 1939-1940, or to start a war in Ukraine in more recent years.
Still, there is one very important aspect, according to the professor. If Russia tried to refer to the results of this “examination” in the international arena, it would acknowledge the fact that it is not a successor to the USSR law, but a continuer of the said law. In other words, the Russian Federation and the Soviet Union would appear to be the same subject of international law.
“Up until now, Russia has denied this fact feverishly, because acknowledging the fact that Russia is continuing USSR law would mean that both the USSR and the Russian Federation of today are responsible for the occupation of the Baltic states,” Mr. Žilinskas says.
“Analogous to the request on Crimea”
The fact that the Prosecution General’s Office started the investigation requested by the two members of the Russian State Duma was reported by a source of Interfax that is close to the situation.
“The decision to acknowledge the independence of the Baltic states is legally detrimental, because it was made by a non-constitutional body,” the source commented on the State Duma member’s request. According to the source, the answer to this request will be “analogous to the request on Crimea”.
The source reminded that the Prosecutor General’s Office had already acknowledged that the decision made in 1954 to concede Crimea (which belonged to Soviet Russia) to Ukraine was illegitimate. The source also noted that the ruling by the Prosecutor General’s Office had no legal value.
“The Russian prosecutors simply stated the fact that decision to transfer Crimea to Ukraine during Nikita Khrushchev’s rule was made on unconstitutional basis, as the decision was made by unauthorized authorities,” the source explained.
According to the source, “the circumstances of today make it so that there isn’t a body of authority that could cancel this decision”.
“But there is no need for cancelation. Crimea is now part of Russia, which makes this issue a political one,” the source said.
Eglė Samoškaitė, DELFI EN Tuesday, July 7, 2015
A piece of recent news from Russia raised particularly many eyebrows last week. Media reported that the Office of Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation took up to investigate the legitimacy of the independence of the Batlic states.
Eyebrows were raised even in the Kremlin. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov soon said the investigation was "hard to understand" and distanced the Kremlin from the initiative. The Prosecutor General's Office, too, said it had no legal merit and was only taken up because prosecutors are obliged to follow up on requests from Duma members.
According to a Lithuanian professor of law, such an enquiry has quite paradoxical implications. If, say, Russia found that the Baltic independence was illegal and tried to refer to the ruling in the international arena, it would acknowledge the fact that it is not a successor to USSR law, but a continuer of the said law.
This would mean that Russia would take full responsibility for the occupation of the Baltic states, something it strongly denied up until now. But let’s start from the beginning.
The act of Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania was signed and adopted on 11 March 1990.
The Soviet Union recognized Lithuanian independence on 6 September 1991, after a failed coup in Moscow.
At that time, 57 countries had already acknowledged Lithuania's independence.
The USSR officially ceased existing on 8 December 1991, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin, President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and President of Belarus Stanislav Shushkevich signed an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union.
Even so, on June this year two members of the Russian State Duma, Yevgeny Fyodorov and Anton Romanov, representing the United Russia political party of President Vladimir Putin, sent a letter to Russia’s prosecutor general’s office. The letter contained a request to investigate the lawfulness of the State Council of the USSR which “inflicted great harm to the sovereignty, safety and defence of the country”. They were also outraged that the State Council of the USSR accepted the independence of the Baltic states.
The Russian Prosecutor General‘s Office announced that it would investigate whether or not the State Council of the Soviet Union was a legitimate state institution.
What would happen if the Russian Prosecutor‘s Office ruled that the State Council of the USSR was founded unlawfully?
According to Justinas Žilinskas, professor of international and EU law at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius, absolutely nothing.
“In my mind, there would be no legal consequences for Lithuania, because the independence of Lithuania and the Baltic states is not a matter of the State Council of the USSR, but a matter of international law. Lithuania didn‘t secede from the Soviet Union, it re-established its independence, which was lost because of the annexation and occupation in 1940," Mr. Žilinskas said.
“What the USSR institutions were doing is their own internal matter. They were deciding over something that had already happened – the independence was already re-established, and the USSR had to make a decision of their own, and so they did,” the professor added.
According to him, it would be the same if a bandit were holding a person against their will in a flat and then, after the prisoner had escaped, the bandit would say that because of the prisoner’s long confinement, he had become a slave. In this case, the prisoner would need some sort of special permission to escape.
“I think that the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office is doing something similar to a expert-historical examination on the activities of Soviet institutions during its demise. Furthermore, the USSR as well as the State Council of the USSR do not exist anymore, and haven't existed for a long time,” the law professor states.
Mr. Žilinskas goes on to highlight that even if the Russian Prosecutor General's Office were to announce that the State Council of the USSR acted illegitimately, it would not have any influence on neither the independence of Lithuania or the international treaties with Russia.
“That is, unless Russia decides to denounce all international agreements, terminate all political relations and start a circus based on this hypothetical decision. Formally, Russia is in its right as a country to do so, but it should not forget that every international agreement has terms for denunciation, it’s not a straightforward procedure,” Mr. Žilinskas says.
Lastly, the professor notes that international treaties matter very little to Russia and its predecessor, the USSR. International treaties did not have significance for Russia when it decided to occupy its neighbours in 1939-1940, or to start a war in Ukraine in more recent years.
Still, there is one very important aspect, according to the professor. If Russia tried to refer to the results of this “examination” in the international arena, it would acknowledge the fact that it is not a successor to the USSR law, but a continuer of the said law. In other words, the Russian Federation and the Soviet Union would appear to be the same subject of international law.
“Up until now, Russia has denied this fact feverishly, because acknowledging the fact that Russia is continuing USSR law would mean that both the USSR and the Russian Federation of today are responsible for the occupation of the Baltic states,” Mr. Žilinskas says.
“Analogous to the request on Crimea”
The fact that the Prosecution General’s Office started the investigation requested by the two members of the Russian State Duma was reported by a source of Interfax that is close to the situation.
“The decision to acknowledge the independence of the Baltic states is legally detrimental, because it was made by a non-constitutional body,” the source commented on the State Duma member’s request. According to the source, the answer to this request will be “analogous to the request on Crimea”.
The source reminded that the Prosecutor General’s Office had already acknowledged that the decision made in 1954 to concede Crimea (which belonged to Soviet Russia) to Ukraine was illegitimate. The source also noted that the ruling by the Prosecutor General’s Office had no legal value.
“The Russian prosecutors simply stated the fact that decision to transfer Crimea to Ukraine during Nikita Khrushchev’s rule was made on unconstitutional basis, as the decision was made by unauthorized authorities,” the source explained.
According to the source, “the circumstances of today make it so that there isn’t a body of authority that could cancel this decision”.
“But there is no need for cancelation. Crimea is now part of Russia, which makes this issue a political one,” the source said.
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