Sergey Kiriyenko, the first deputy head of the Russian Presidential Office, who is in charge of Russia’s internal affairs and affairs in the occupied areas of Ukraine, in an article to coincide with the Russian National Day “Russia Day” on June 12, to the occupied Ukraine. An article by the people in the district said that the issue of “Chinese Taiwan” raised by Chinese leader Xi Jinping is not an issue that can be used for bargaining.
“Russia Day” commemorates the proclamation of Russia’s national sovereignty on June 12, 1990 by the Congress of People’s Deputies of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic. In an article published on the website of the Russian major newspaper “Izvestia” on the 12th, Kiriyenko commented on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent comments on Peter the Great’s battle against Sweden in the early 18th century and his acquisition of the Baltic coast. The assertion that the land is “taking back” Russian territory is affirmed.
Kiriyenko wrote that “the collective West” does not see Russia’s friendly neighbor relationship with Ukraine, the “brother state”, because the West has long been preoccupied with weakening Russia. Putin has repeatedly stressed to Western leaders Russia’s “unwavering” stance on the “Russian” Crimea and the Donbas region, but the West has ignored it.
Kiriyenko mentioned that the situation has developed so far, and the issue of “Russians” in the Sea of Azov and Kherson regions showing their own will is like Xi Jinping’s “China Taiwan” issue, or Turkey’s Like President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the issue of sovereignty over the Mediterranean islands cannot be negotiated.
Kiriyenko pointed out that Russia supports Xi Jinping’s “global security initiative” and that the West is trying to impose its own views on the future of the world and its own interests on the two major nuclear powers, Russia and China. It is the West that deliberately embarks on the road of confrontation. Russia hopes that the phenomenon of “interference in the internal affairs of countries and peoples” will no longer occur in the world. He also accused the West of creating new military alliances in the Indo-Pacific region, posing a threat to Russia.
Kiriyenko declared that the successful experience of holding a referendum in Ukraine’s “liberated areas” will be an important symbol for other peoples and regions struggling for their own future and worldview. Russia is willing to spend a large budget to “rebuild” Ukraine at the expense of a temporary drop in living standards. He also addressed the Ukrainian residents who were “liberated” by the Russian army, and now “Russia Day” is also “your holiday”.
Although Moscow, which is in sympathy with the CCP, has publicly supported Beijing’s position on the Taiwan issue many times before, reiterating that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China”. People like Riyenko, who are at the core of Moscow’s decision-making, made Taiwan-related remarks, which attracted special attention.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, further expanding the occupied areas in eastern and southern Ukraine since 2014. Russian-language media, citing people familiar with the matter, revealed that Moscow is pushing for a “referendum on accession to Russia” in the old and new occupied areas of Ukraine in order to package the “special military operation” against Ukraine as a place to defend “the heart of Russia’s historical motherland.” people, but only if the Russian armed forces and intelligence units can stabilize the situation in the occupied area.
After the outbreak of the Ukrainian-Russian War, Kiriyenko was the first high-ranking official to personally go to the area occupied by the Ukrainian Eastern Russian Army. In addition to Russian domestic politics, he is also currently in charge of affairs in the Occupied Ukraine. He is also one of the closest officials to Putin, who helped put Putin on the map in the 1990s and briefly served as prime minister in 1998 at the age of 35. He was once considered a “right-leaning liberal” and formed a party with Boris Nemtsov, an anti-Putin politician who was assassinated in 2015.
Since Putin came to power in 2000, Kiriyenko has repeatedly made significant contributions to the interests of consolidating Moscow’s ruling core in various positions, including drastically weakening the power of national republics and local governments and running elections. His main areas of responsibility include party politics, youth politics, civic movements, public opinion work, Internet and social media policy, as well as internal and external publicity. He also headed the state-run company Rosatom for more than 10 years.
It is reported that Kiriyenko has a certain competitive advantage in the increasingly fierce power struggle in Moscow after the outbreak of the Ukrainian-Russian war. The reasons include his close relationship with the national security intelligence unit for many years, and the use of his power to actively cultivate a team in the country. The war also expanded his stage. The United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the European Union have all imposed sanctions on him one after another.