'This is our land, our territory of strategic interests,' Henry Sardaryan, dean at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, said on state TV.
A Russian academic has said on state TV that nations that were part of the USSR should still be considered Russian territory.Russian President Vladimir Putin waits to greet participants of the informal annual summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the presidential residence of Konstantin Palace in Strelna, outside St. Petersburg, on December 28, 2021.
The Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, and its former members include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a number of ex-Soviet republics have distanced themselves from Moscow.Alexander Lukashenko, who relies on the Russian leader to remain in power, following an election in 2020 that is widely seen as fraudulent.
Referring to the ex-Soviet states, Sardaryan told his fellow guests on Russian state TV:"This is our land, our territory of strategic interests."
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