Smolensk legislator criminally prosecuted for his remarks on region's independence and potential association with Belarus
At a conference in Poland, Vladislav Zhivitsa, a member of the Smolensk Regional Duma, proposed that his region should join Belarus in the future. On August 14, he told 7x7 that a criminal case has been opened against him in Russia. Vladislav Zhivitsa , a member of the Smolensk Regional Duma, said at a conference in Poland that Smolensk should be independent of both Russia and Moscow.