Russia says probe into legality of recognition of Baltic states' independence is meaningless
The Kremlin finds it hard to understand the gist of the MPs’ initiative for probing into the legality of the USSR State Council’s decision to recognize the independence of the Baltic republics in 1991, state-run news agency TASS reports.
“The Kremlin is not familiar with that initiative, and, honestly speaking, I find it hard to realize its meaning,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the media.
The case has no legal perspectives, Marina Gridnyova, a representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, said.
The official noted that the prosecutors have to study deputies’s queries, even if they are meaningless. “Sometimes it happens that some of them completely lack any common sense,” she said.
It is to be recalled that Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office opened an investigation into the constitutionality of the State Council of the Soviet Union’s 1991 recognition of the Baltic states’ independence.
Vytautas Landsbergis, the first Head of the independent Lithuania, proposed not to respond to Moscow’s trolling. “They are trying to provoke us to get into dispute,” he suggested.
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