“There was a violation of the law on the procedure for resolving issues related to the withdrawal from the USSR. For example, he expected a referendum – but the Lithuanians did not hold it. There was also a transitional period, which was necessary to resolve the controversial issues – they did without it. They had a legal right to leave – but they went the other way, “Fedorov explained in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
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When asked why the independence of Lithuania and not other post-Soviet countries is in his throat, he replied that it was due to the connection with the Kaliningrad region, ie the Russian exclave in Europe.
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“Lithuania is a priority for us. It is a more important territory than others. It is a passage to the Kaliningrad region. And they are consistently pursuing the most aggressive anti-Russian policy, “the Russian legislator added, without specifying what the adoption of his proposal should mean in practice.
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