Yakut historian Afanasy Nikolaev, candidate of historical sciences, who proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to move the country’s capital from Moscow to Irkutsk, told socialbites.ca that the authorities were wrong to abandon this initiative. He noted that the idea of moving the capital was feasible, but that failure to do so could lead to “the disintegration of the country.”
“They are wrong. Delay could lead to the collapse of the country. It is no longer possible for Russia to rapidly develop its Asian regions from Moscow and interact with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, the new center of the world. Moscow is delayed in making decisions due to geography. This is now fraught with disaster. The transfer idea is possible. “We are not talking about moving all of Moscow, but about moving state institutions and large enterprises beyond the Urals. The move of the capital of Kazakhstan to Astana in the 90s is an indication of this,” he said.
Nikolaev believes that Russians live in conditions of “undeclared war of the West”, so moving the capital is “the call of the hour”.
“Moving the capital beyond the Urals is a demand of the age, just as military factories were moved beyond the Urals during the Great Patriotic War. We live in conditions of an undeclared war of the West against Russia, as in 1941-1945. That is why Russia needs general mobilization of the population in a new format in the conditions of modern hybrid information warfare. And the reconstruction of a new Eurasian Union State with a population of 250-300 million people,” he said.
January 11 edition Sakhalife published Nikolaev’s letter to Vladimir Putin in which he proposes to move the capital from Moscow to Irkutsk. According to him, this will ensure the balanced development of the European and Asian regions of Russia, ensure the security of the country’s military-political leadership, accelerate the socio-economic development of the state by getting closer to the Asia-Pacific region. (APR) will contribute to the strengthening and development of the Eurasian Economic Union within a new and powerful allied Eurasian power.
He also noted that Irkutsk was not only the administrative center of Siberia during the Russian exploration of Siberia, the Far East and Russian America, but also one of the centers of the legendary prehistoric Tartaria.
January 16, press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented initiative – the Kremlin believes it is “unfeasible”.
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