A statement was written against ex-presidential aide Surkov with a request to check his article about the “Great North”

Moscow police are checking an article by former presidential aide Vladislav Surkov about the “Great North” for compliance with Russian legislation. about this TASS writes with reference to the department.

The agency reports that the police received a request to check the article. TASS does not indicate from whom exactly it came and what exactly theses in the article “The Birth of the North” raised questions from the applicant.

“On this fact, police officers are conducting a pre-investigation check in accordance with Art. 144-145 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation (for the presence or absence of elements of a crime),” said the TASS interlocutor.

at the end of September 2023 Surkov’s article “The Birth of the North” was published by the publication “Actual Comments” . In it, a former assistant to Vladimir Putin discusses the possible rapprochement of the United States, Europe and Russia, as a result of which the “Great North” will emerge.

“There will be a Great North - Russia, the USA and Europe, forming a common socio-cultural space. Triune northern geopolitical cluster. The North's premonition has already become evident in the increased use of the term “global South.” But there is no south without a north,” writes Surkov, adding that the West and East will dissolve in the “Great North.”

At the same time, he emphasizes that this will happen “not in our turn,” and the chance to create a so-called great northern alliance was missed at the beginning of the 2000s, when Putin invited the United States to think about Russia’s joining NATO.

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