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Ukraine: “Through these puppet referendums, Russia has just signified that it will go all the way”

2022-09-28T10:47:40.036Z


INTERVIEW – If the Soviet results of a hastily organized election are not very credible, Moscow has managed to show that it was regaining momentum after the rout of Kharkiv, explains Florent Parmentier, teacher at Sciences Po.


Florent Parmentier is Secretary General of CEVIPOF, the political research center of Sciences Po, and associate researcher at the Geopolitics Center of HEC.

He is the author of

Paths to the Rule of Law;

The narrow path of countries between Europe and Russia

(Presses de Sciences Po, 2014).

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LE FIGARO.- The

referendums

in favor of joining Russia obtained Soviet results in the regions of Zaporijjia (93.11%), Kherson (87.05%), Lugansk (98.42%) and Donetsk (99.23%).

What credibility should be given to these figures?

FLORENT PARMENTIER.-

These results do not reflect much.

Of course, part of the population in these regions, particularly in the Donbass, is angry with the authorities in kyiv for having seen their territory bombarded since 2014, and these are satisfied to join the Russian Federation .

But certainly not in such proportions.

There is no need to go back over the botched conduct of this election.

In 2014, the referendum for the attachment…

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Source: lefigaro

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