Bogdan Yaremenko: Crisis Of Totalitarian Rule Awaits Putin, Lukashenka Regimes
- 26.12.2022, 16:27
The forms will be different, but the reason is the same.
The Charter97.org website continues to summarize the results of the outgoing year. Bogdan Yaremenko, a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the ruling party Servant of the People, has answered our questions today. The Ukrainian MP believes that his country is close to a turning point in the war:
- I would like to note the successful battles for Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson. The offensive operation near Izyum and the heroic defence of Bakhmut are of great importance for Ukraine. Also it's worth noting the country's European Union candidate status and the decision to provide the latest US weaponry, including the Patriot system. This year is simply overloaded with significant events for Ukraine, they are all meaningful in different ways, but they are all very important things that have been happening to the country.
- Lots of people have noted that it has been a crisis year for the world security architecture as well. How can we secure the world against such wars in the future?
- This is very tentative. It seems to me that such conclusions are made by people who have no right to do so, because the crisis started back in 2008 with a completely unfounded attack on Georgia. Now it has simply reached its most acute stage, the aggravation is possible only in the form of using nuclear weapons. But, hopefully, it will not come to that.
So far no new global security architecture is in sight. All that can be learned from this situation now is that the defence blocks will be more value-oriented. Democracies will be forced (in a positive sense) to seek for more dialogue with each other, rejecting dialogue with countries that do not share their values and see the world differently. That is, the security structure will develop further towards establishing new dividing lines.
- Your prognosis for Ukraine, Belarus and Russia for the next year?
- For Ukraine it will be the continuation of the war, there will be sacrifices, there will be victories, small and, we hope, big ones. Also there will be the bitterness of very heavy, very big losses.
As for Belarus and Russia, one prognosis can be made - I think it will be a period of deepening of a large-scale, systematic and all-round crisis in the Russian and Belarusian societies. They are different in some respects, but it will be a crisis of the totalitarian rule, inability to meet people's demands, inability to ensure peaceful development of the countries. These forms may be quite different, but the cause will be the same in Russia and Belarus.