He likes to be presented to Western audiences such as “Putinism architect“, although academics like Carmen Claudín, Senior researcher Barcelona Center for International Affairs (CIDOB) limit that role, reducing it to one more among the many ‘buildingers’ of political thought embodied by the current Kremlin leader. But the truth is that Vladislav surkov, born Six decades ago In solntsevo, a small village of the Lipetsk regionin the center of European Russia, he is responsible for words and expressions that They ended up dominating The official language of the Russia of Vladimir Putin. Either “sovereign democracy”, a way of calling those political systems in which elections are celebrated but lacking any possibility of political alternation, or “vertical of power”, a centralized structure in whose vertex is the president and that once ended the discordination and chaos that reigned between the regional authorities of the Russian Federation under the presidency of Boris Yeltsin.
Surkov, whose political career has experienced ups and downs, had remained outside the public eye Since 2020, when he was relieved of his position as presidential counselor for matters referring to Ukraine, being appointed instead Dmitri Kozaka character close to the Kremlin leader. “We do not know if in all this time he has continued playing a role of politics,” he explains to El Periódic Euromaidan Press And a journalist who examined in 2016 more than two thousand emails hacked from his personal account, an investigation called ‘Surkov Leaks’. Now he has just resurfaced, granting an interview with the French weekly ‘L’Express’ with a transparent message and without hot cloths: Russia will continue to expand “where God decides” and the plans to submit to Ukraine and divide it will maintain, regardless of the conversations result that are currently maintaining American, Russian and Ukrainian representatives in Saudi Arabia.
“Create realities”
What does this enigmatic character seek exposing himself again to the public eye? Shandra remembers that Surkov has always exercised a function of “Create realities” in order to influence events. And the content of the interview, in which according to this reporter, is not said “nothing new”, it is certainly a daring exercise of historical revisionism. In his words, in 2014, the date of the Euromaidan revolution and the subsequent annexation of Crimea, “less than half of the Ukrainians supported the entrance into the EU”, reaching the “fantoche regime supported by the minority of the country” to the government of the country ” Volodímir Zelenskia president elected with 73% of the votes cast in the presidential presidential ones in 2019. In the opinion of the journalist, Surkov is certifying that the results of the current conversations for a truce will be the “second partition of Ukraine”, after Minsk’s agreements already makes a decade mean “the first” partition.
The results of the long interview of surkov in the future of events are about to see, beyond being repeated by the current Russian political elite, whose president Putin has just suggested, between a flood of international convictions, that Ukraine is put under the administration of the UN until the celebration of presidential elections. “Certainly, surkov’s words are not going to push the Ukrainians to fight with Less anell“Against the invader, he discards, also through the phone, Kadri Liik, senior researcher of ‘Think Tank’ European Council on Foreign Relations. This academic recalls precisely that its relay, in 2020, as a presidential counselor on Ukraine was due to the lack of results of Its policieswhich failed to modify Ukrainian public opinion and push citizens to look back towards Moscow. They also doubt that they have some effect between the audiences on the European Union. “Surkov’s policies have worked well within the borders of Russia, but it didn’t,” he insists. In fact, “in Europe it is known little,” Liik recalls.
And he doesn’t lack reason. The investigation ‘Surkov Leaks’ demonstrated the Wide paper played by Moscow in the rebellions of the separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, and also exposed a good number of Influencers and collaborative agents of Russia in Ukraine in the period after the Maidan Revolution in 2014, with the aim of destabilizing the country. However, despite what “conscientious” From the effort invested by the Kremlin, describes the journalist Shandra, failed to reverse the political situation in kyiv, or modify the inclination towards the West they felt and feel since then the majority of the Ukrainian citizens.
