The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has asked President Vladimir Putin to recognize the independence of Ukraine's two eastern separatist regions. - Russia does not want these two regions annexed at all. Its goal is to push these regions, with their pro-Russian regimes, into Ukraine and to manage Ukraine from the inside through its own Trojan horses," said Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, President of the Strategie 2050 Institute, in TOK FM.

Learn more  from TOK FM (in Polish only).

If you want to know more about Vladimir Putin himself and his political path that led to the consolidation of power, we recommend watching Putin's Witnesses. The film is based on unique and strictly documentary testimonies of the true causes and consequences of the operation “Successor”, as a result of which Russia ended up with the president who still rules the country.

Putin's Witnesses, dir. Vitaly Mansky

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