The Russian opposition organized in Poland (the village of Yablonna) the "Congress of People's Deputies", where they adopted laws for the future of Russia. The organizing committee of the "Congress of People's Deputies" includes Ilya Ponomarev, Mark Feigin, Gennady Gudkov, Elena Lukyanova, Pyotr Tsarkov, Arkady Yankovsky and Nina Belyaeva. Some of them participate in the congress online via video link.
Oleksiy Goncharenko, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, who joined the congress, suggested discussing Putin's assassination. The assassination of the Russian president and the creation of a liberation army are the two goals of the "Congress of People's Deputies," Goncharenko said. Nobody responded to his statement. Only one of the participants in the congress noted that international courts should deal with Putin according to the law. There was no reaction to this statement either, according to The Insider correspondent.
Also during the congress, such documents as the “Law on Lustration”, “Revolutionary Act”, an appeal to the Russian opposition” were adopted. “We consider the current government to be tyranny, and the people have the right to rebel against tyranny,” says Ponomarev. – Lustrations are necessary. It is necessary to open the archives of the special services up to the USSR. The agents that were being formed should be exposed and subjected to lustrations.”
Concept about lustrations
A document called "The Law on Lustrations" was given special attention at the congress. Its concept is published on the website of the congress. According to this concept, lustration means the deprivation of passive and active suffrage, the right to hold a position in a municipal or state service, to engage in advocacy, journalism, teaching and educational activities, to work in law enforcement agencies, special government services, courts, to be the founder of the media and educational organizations .
It is proposed to lustrate all those who, in one way or another, are not only involved in justifying or approving the war in Ukraine, but also carry out relevant instructions. For example, educators, teachers, teachers of educational organizations who took part in the organization of "events in support of SVO."
It is also proposed to lustrate “on the basis of belonging to a criminal group”. “A person belonging to one of the listed criminal groups, even if he did not commit crimes expressed in the form of action, committed crimes in the form of inaction, if, while continuing to hold his position, the person did not use his position to help participants in the resistance against the Putin regime.”
There is also a list of conditions that will help to avoid lustration. One of them is the very murder of Vladimir Putin, which Goncharenko called for.
According to a member of the organizing committee of the congress, a deputy of the Semiluksky district of the Voronezh region, Nina Belyaeva, the "law on lustration" was single-handedly changed by Ilya Ponomarev. The provision to get rid of the lustration of a person who would kill Putin was added later, Vot Tak reports . Access to Belyaeva’s documents was blocked, and during the meeting of the congress, the online participants were turned off the sound, they are allowed to speak only with the permission of an unknown administrator. At the same time, the congress adopted one of the reports “unanimously,” says Belyaeva, although online participants were not allowed to vote at all.
“Speaking is allowed only with the permission of the conference administrator, whose name and status are unknown to anyone. The chat is closed, and then suddenly someone will say something not according to the plan. Not according to the plan of secret organizers, whose names were also not disclosed. In general, I refuse to take part in this circus, where a new dictator is being built under the guise of democracy. I definitely don’t want to go to Russia, built on the principle of turning off an alternative point of view, ” writes Belyaeva.
Legitimacy of the congress
According to the correspondent of The Insider, the question of the legitimacy of this congress often pops up among the assembled guests and delegates. On its website , the "Congress of People's Deputies" positions itself as a gathering of "the only representatives of society and the state who have the democratic legitimacy they have received from Russian citizens." Ilya Ponomarev during the congress replies that, as representatives of Russian citizens, they are quite legitimate, since they were once elected by the people and now Russia needs a temporary body for the transfer of power, and they “will hold elections later”, Gennady Gudkov calls the audience “proto-parliament”. Recall that Ponomarev, Feigin and Gudkov are ex-deputies of the State Duma.
“Regardless of external circumstances, after the virtual ban on legal political activity in the Russian Federation, they are now the only legal holders of power in Russia,” the congress website says. “People's representatives who have such a legitimate mandate must today fulfill their obligations to voters, to all Russian citizens, to their country and future generations. The essence of these obligations is the creation of a legitimate center of power, which in the future will form the Government of National Unity and the Armed Forces of Free Russia, and they, in turn, will provide everything necessary for the legal and democratic re-establishment of the Russian Statehood.