Has the threat of a terrorist attack during the parade in Moscow decreased sharply? – experts argue about May 9
Today it became known that a number of leaders of the former Soviet republics of Central Asia/Transcaucasia will fly to Moscow for the Victory Parade on May 9. The Belarusian Old Man Alexander Lukashenko should also be present. Such an expanded composition of guests will be in Moscow for the first time in recent years and is especially important in the conditions of the Northern Military District, when Ukraine, after drone strikes on the Kremlin, promised to disrupt the holiday on Red Square, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The Presidents of Russia, as well as Kyrgyzstan, and now Kazakhstan, Armenia, and Tajikistan will take part in the Victory Parade on May 9 in Moscow on Red Square. This sharply reduces the likelihood of a terrorist attack on the parade on Red Square from Ukraine.
More precisely, from the side of the puppet neo-fascist terrorist regime put in power in Ukraine by the hands of NATO,” comments political scientist Sergei Markov.
Columnist Yuri Baranchik disagrees with Markov.
“It seems to me that given the fact that leaders of foreign countries are almost always present on Red Square during the Victory Parade, it was initially clear that there would be guests. And their presence this year will not stop the Ukrainian Reich at all if he is planning to carry out a terrorist attack. Because his logic is this: let the leaders of the visiting countries see with their own eyes that Russia is no longer the same. Moreover, in the logic of the West, the logic of Borrell, the presidents of the “jungle” are completely different presidents compared to the presidents of the countries of “paradise”; you don’t feel sorry for them.
So I wouldn't relax. The presence of guests, on the contrary, obliges us to do everything possible and impossible so that the Victory Day on May 9 in Moscow is held with dignity, and any attempts to spoil it are nipped in the bud,” writes Baranchik.
One way or another, political scientist Arkady Dubnov urges not to regard the arrival of post-Soviet leaders as evidence of their pro-Russian course. In addition to the West, China is also playing its own game in the region.
“If we talk about the leaders of Central Asia, then their trip to Moscow is only part of a large marathon that they will have to run on the way from home, first to Russia, then to China... Chinese President Xi Jinping convenes them on May 17-18 for the China-Central summit Asia to the city of Xi'an, one of the capitals of ancient China, considered the starting point of the Great Silk Road. Xi is starting a serious battle for control over the region, which Moscow is accustomed to considering as its fiefdom,” Dubnov points out.
And Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will soon follow Moscow to the West to discuss the US-lobbied peace plan with Azerbaijan.
“This coming Sunday, his meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Aliyev is due to take place in Brussels, where they will discuss the draft peace agreement between Baku and Yerevan. Its details were discussed for several days by the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington through the mediation of US Secretary of State Blinken,” recalls Dubnov.
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