Jablonna Conference from October 4th to 7th
Russian opposition members want to set up a government-in-exile in Poland
The first congress of Russian opposition figures who want to take over power in Russia after Putin’s fall is taking place near Warsaw. They plan to form a government in exile – and prepare to enter the Kremlin.
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Russian opposition figures are beginning to plan for the post-President Vladimir Putin era.
They want to take over power after Putin – and are now meeting in Poland: near Warsaw, efforts by Russian opposition members who have fled to plan for the time after Putin in their homeland will be concrete for the first time at the weekend.
In the Warsaw suburb of Jablonna, a congress of former members of the Duma, who sat in parliament before the annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea in 2014 and want to move into the Kremlin after the intended overthrow of Russian President Vladimir Putin (70), will take place from Friday to Monday.
A total of more than 50 former Russian parliamentarians, government officials and local politicians are expected, who are apparently planning to form a government in exile. This is reported by the Polish weekly «Do Rzeczy». In addition, Russian opposition figures and activists are expected in Jablonna who “condemn Putin’s regime and speak out against the war with Ukraine and the annexation of Ukrainian territories”.
New Constitution for Post-Putin Russia
According to the organizers, the formation of an alternative government agency is beginning: “We are initiating the process of creating alternative power bodies that will be able to take over the leadership of the country after Putin,” the Polish newspaper “Rzeczpospolita” quoted one of the organizers as saying.
Among the participants is the leading Russian opposition figure Ilya Ponomarev (47), who has lived in exile in Kiev since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Some of the expected guests apparently want to keep their conference participation secret for security reasons, according to organizational circles.
Congress will adopt a “Declaration of the Constitutional Principles of a Free Russia,” it said. The declaration is intended to form the basis of the future new Russian constitution. The “most important decisions” that would have to be made for “post-Putin Russia” have already been identified: “In Yablonna, the plan and the principles of the ‘national resistance’ against the Putin regime at home and abroad have to be defined .» (kes)