Hello, dear participants of the next 8th Forum of Free States of Post-Russia!
My name is Ruslan Gabbasov, I am a member of the League of Free Nations, as well as the head of the Committee of the Bashkir National Movement Abroad.
The decolonial agenda began to be spoken about openly and loudly on many international platforms immediately after the start of Russian military aggression against sovereign Ukraine. However, the topic of national republics and regions of Russia gaining independence has not found and does not find support among Western politicians.
What are politicians and leaders of Western countries afraid of? The emergence of new independent states on planet Earth? But over the past 30 years, more than 37 new independent states have appeared in the world, and they will appear, no matter how much anyone wants this or not. As long as nations strive to gain independence and live freely, determining their own destiny, the struggle will continue. Unfortunately, we see that some countries, which just yesterday were themselves powerless colonies of empires, today, having become independent states, are opposed to other captive states gaining independence.
I believe that many people living in the West do not know at all what Russia is. For them, Russia is one big country with one Russian people, one language and one culture. But that’s not true. Dozens of nations live in Russia, many of them are larger in number than some nations of Europe, and the territory of some national republics is larger than the territories of many countries in the world. For example, my Republic of Bashkortostan is larger in territory than countries such as Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Belgium, Greece, and Bulgaria, as well as many other independent states of the world. In terms of economic potential, my republic is also ahead of many countries in the world that are today independent states.
Then the question is, why is there such injustice, why can some countries be independent and determine their own state policies, while others remain powerless colonies? If so, let us honestly and openly admit that the world is still ruled by the rule of the strong, and not by the right of nations to self-determination. If you want to deny that the territorial integrity of the state is a priority, then I will remind you that Russia is a federation, and not a unitary state, where the subjects built relations with each other on the basis of equal treaties. But today Moscow unilaterally liquidated all these agreements, thereby violating our rights to sovereignty. This means that nothing connects us with this country anymore.
Today, Western politicians love to meet with the so-called Russian liberal opposition, which in its composition represents only one city, which is Moscow. This is where all these Russian politicians come from. None of them represents the national republics and regions of Russia and none of them talks about the terrible situation in which many nations of the empire called Russia find themselves. They don’t talk about how many nations practically lost their native language and culture, and how many national figures were repressed. So, I declare that this Russian opposition is not liberal, and never has been. These are the real imperials. Because “liberalism” proclaims the rights and freedom of every person as the highest value. Where then are our rights and freedoms? When checking a so-called Russian oppositionist, one should ask him not “Whose Crimea?”, but “Does it recognize the right of nations to self-determination?” A true liberal always recognizes the right of nations to self-determination.
Making their statements and proving to all of us that Russia cannot disintegrate, and national republics cannot become independent states, they present their arguments in the form of articles and videos to an audience of millions.
In response, we present our arguments that Russia cannot continue to exist, and new states in the place of post-Russia are quite viable and have a great future. When we tell them, let’s hold a debate like in a real democratic society and find out whose arguments are more convincing and carry more weight, they cowardly remain silent and do not accept the challenge to debate.
So, using this platform, I want to call the Russian oppositionist Vladimir Milov, a coward who was afraid to enter into a debate with political academic Vadim Sidorov, who challenged him after Milov’s article that national republics and regions cannot become independent states. So that’s it. Maria Pevchikh, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Alexei Volkov, Maxim Kats and many other imperials, who pretend that we do not exist. How are they going to lay claim to the future governance of Russia if they are already behaving like Vladimir Putin, who, as we know, has never participated in debates and has always cowardly avoided them?
Today you all know about such political prisoners as Alexei Navalny, Andrei Pivovarov, Ilya Yashin, but no one knows about such political prisoners as Ayrat Dilmukhametov, Ramilya Saitova, Oltan Ochirov, Malsag Uzhakhov, Akhmed Barakhoev and many many others.
With all these accusations, I want to say that Russian Moscow oppositionists do not have the right to negotiate with European, American or other world leaders about the fate of the future Russia without us, without representatives of national and regional movements.
What am I offering?
I proposed at previous forums and propose now, to create a Committee at the European Parliament, at the UN, which will discuss and develop the necessary decisions on the future reorganization of post-Russia. I proposed and propose now that the Russians and other nations of Russia create unified armed formations that will participate in the war against the Putin regime, armed with NATO equipment, and trained by NATO specialists. All this is real, all you need is a strong-willed decision. Seeing how Putin organizes armed conflicts in different parts of the world in order to divert attention from Ukraine, we need to hurry up and put an end to him as quickly as possible.
You, Western and world politicians, go to the meeting of the Moscow opposition, listen to them, help them, but do not listen to us. Organize a joint platform for us, listen to the arguments of both sides and let’s make joint decisions!
Thank you for your attention!
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