It is a stone in the pond that has just thrown Vladislav Surkov, the ex-eminence grise of Vladimir Putin (1999-2011, 2013-2020) and key character in the successful novel by Giuliano da Empoli.
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In a very short interview published on February 16 on a Russian Telegram channel, Vladislav Surkov, architect of "sovereign democracy" as much as of Moscow's policy in Ukraine from 2014, answers "no" to the question "
when
you
have worked on the Minsk agreements, did you start from the fact that they must be implemented?
The Minsk 2 agreements were signed on February 11, 2015 between the Ukrainian (Petro Poroshenko) and Russian (Vladimir Putin) presidents to enforce the ceasefire and lay the foundations for a way out of the crisis.
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Mr. Surkov takes the opposite view of the Kremlin, which has been explaining for months that he was forced to relaunch the war in Ukraine precisely because of the non-implementation of Minsk 2 by Kiev.
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