They want to take power after Putin – and now meet in Poland: Near Warsaw, the efforts of Russian opposition members who have fled to plan the time after Putin in their homeland will be concrete for the first time this weekend.
In the Warsaw suburb of Jablonna, a congress of former members of the State Duma, who sat in parliament before the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014 and after the proposed overthrow of Russian President Vladimir Putin (70), will want to withdraw the Kremlin. take place from Friday to Monday.
In total, more than 50 former Russian parliamentarians, government officials and local politicians are expected, who apparently intend to form a government in exile. This is reported by the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy. In addition, Russian opposition figures and activists are expected in Jablonna to “condemn Putin’s regime and speak out against the war with Ukraine and the annexation of Ukrainian territories”.
New Constitution for Russia after Putin
According to the organizers, the formation of an alternative government agency is beginning: “We are starting the process of creating alternative power bodies that will be able to take over the leadership of the country after Putin,” the Polish newspaper “Rzeczpospolita” was quoted as saying by the organizers.
Among the participants is leading Russian opposition figure Ilya Ponomarev, 47, who has been living in exile in Kiev since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Some of the expected guests apparently want to keep their congress participation secret for security reasons, according to organizational circles.
Congress will adopt a “declaration of the constitutional principles of a free Russia”. The declaration is intended to form the basis of the future new Russian constitution. The “key decisions” that should be made for “post-Putin Russia” have already been identified: “In Yablonna, the plan and principles of the ‘national resistance’ against the Putin regime at home and abroad should be defined.” (keep)