"There was such a forum." Whether Russia breaks into dozens of state

Former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and now the citizen of Ukraine Ilya Ponomarev in an interview with Radio NV evaluated the possibility that Russia will break up into dozens of states. Responding to the comment that, if Russia becomes democratic, it will break up into 32 or 43 states, as they said at the last forum of free peoples of Russia, which took place in Prague, Ponomarev said Radio NV that, in his opinion, such a scenario is not very much likely.

Video of the day "There are different attitudes to this. There was a forum where there were different separatists who have such an opinion about many different states. In my opinion, this is not a very probable scenario. First, I do not see the prerequisites now. Many regions are mostly recipients of assistance from the center, not donors. And for them, such separation can be very difficult and even dangerous, ”said the former State Duma.

At the same time, he acknowledged that some regions of the Russian Federation "with high probability will want to separate and go as an independent, independent state. " “For example, Chechnya is Ichceria: it is likely that they will choose such a path. But it will not become a rule, ”Ponomarev suggested. According to him, peoples have to determine whether they want to exist within the Russian state.