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Putin's Diplomatic "Desert": Expert Declares Russia's Duma "Politically Dead Society"

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Putin's Diplomatic "Desert": Expert Declares Russia's Duma "Politically Dead Society" Created: 06-08-2022Updated: 06-08-2022 12:59 p.m By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi A Russia expert sees a "political desert" around the Kremlin boss Putin. Amnesty International's Ukraine director has resigned. The news ticker. "Diplomatic desert" around Putin : A Swedish expert considers Russia to be "politically dead


Putin's Diplomatic "Desert": Expert Declares Russia's Duma "Politically Dead Society"

Created: 06-08-2022Updated: 06-08-2022 12:59 p.m

By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi

A Russia expert sees a "political desert" around the Kremlin boss Putin.

Amnesty International's Ukraine director has resigned.

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Update from August 6, 12.40 p.m .:

After the publication of a critical report on the Ukrainian army, the head of the Ukraine office of the human rights organization Amnesty International resigned.

Oksana Pokalchuk announced her resignation online, accusing Amnesty of hijacking Russian propaganda.

A report by Amnesty caused outrage in Kyiv.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused the organization of "putting victims and attackers on the same level, so to speak".

In the report, Amnesty International accused the Ukrainian army of endangering civilians by setting up bases in residential areas, schools and hospitals.

Pokalchuk said she tried to warn Amnesty officials that the report was one-sided and did not adequately reflect Ukraine's position.

However, she was ignored.

Amnesty's secretary-general, Agnès Callamard, said the organization "stands whole" by its report.

"Diplomatic desert" around Putin - Swedish expert comments on the current situation

First report from August 6:

Munich - With the Ukraine war, the Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has made himself particularly unpopular with many in the international arena.

According to the Swedish political scientist and Russia expert Kristian Gerner from the University of Lund, the Kremlin boss has created a "political desert" around him.

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Speaking to the Swedish tabloid

Aftonbladet

, expert Gerner emphasized that Putin has completely isolated himself from other opinions, with only Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaking for Moscow.

This created a "emptiness" around me.

Putin sees Lavrov as a person with "some kind of authority in the Western world," which is why he tasked him with taking a tougher Russian line.

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It is not allowed to speak in a way that Putin does not like.

Gerner emphasized: "I would like to emphasize that there is no political life in Russia today." There is "no political debate, not in the Duma, not in the public media, anywhere," said the expert.

Gerner considers Russia to be a “politically dead society”: “And so they continue and wage war in this way.”

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Source: merkur

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