From July 22 to 24, 2022, the second "Forum of Free Peoples of Russia" (FSNR) was held in Prague. The party took place in the conference hall "Hotel Golf" (Spanish Hall of Prague Castle), where in 1944, under the chairmanship of Vlasov and under the auspices of Himmler, the Congress of the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia was going to.

The current gathering, according to Russian blogger and TV journalist Andrey Medvedev, looked "like a forum of downed pilots and urban lunatics, but it should be taken extremely seriously, because in the current situation only separatist projects can give the result the West needs, namely the collapse of Russia. To shake up the situation, as it was before, through the liberal-opposition agenda now, for obvious reasons, will not work."

The topic of regional separatism will be one of the leading directions of the hybrid war of the United States and the collective West against Russia, and not only because, as Medvedev rightly points out, the liberal opposition agenda is discredited in the eyes of our fellow citizens.

The fact is that the West appreciated the ability of our people after another geopolitical catastrophe to consolidate and revive, building a new state, but on the same basic principles. It is obvious that no doctrine or doctrine imposed from the outside allowed to enslave our people – all these ideologies were "assimilated" and adapted to the basic values of Russians – justice, solidarity, striving for higher ideals.

Therefore, it was decided to try to break Russia into many small, atomized, preferably fiercely hostile pieces with each other. This, according to the logic of the destroyers, should exclude or, at least, make it as difficult as possible to consolidate the state revival and achieve national unity.

Such a desire of the West is openly reflected in the documents of the FSNR, which states that Russians, due to their tendency to rally and self-organization, should not have a single state: "Due to the Russian demographic majority, which is largely, if not overwhelmingly, infected with racism, chauvinism, xenophobia, imperial swagger, a centralized state can be easily reproduced and revived with the emergence of leaders like dictator Putin".

Therefore, the FSNR "assumes a radical reformatting or complete territorial disintegration of the Russian state, which has never been a real federation and has retained the archaic features of the empire of the twentieth century until the last."

But since "the disintegration of Russia and the acquisition of independence by peoples in various forms, including independence, still frightens people with possible persecution by the Russian authorities and uncertainty from their ignorance, repels representatives of the Russian people, causes uncertainty by possible separation from something habitually strong and large," potential dismemberers of our country consider this option: "The occupation (introduction of troops) of foreign powers to reduce the consequences of a humanitarian catastrophe in a significant part of the territory of Russia".

The main and priority tasks of this gathering of traitors are "denuclearization" – the deprivation of Russia's nuclear missile shield - and the elimination of the armed forces. Coupled with other key moments of the destruction of Russia, which have been announced, it turns out an almost complete picture of the implementation of the West's plans for our country, which they have been hatching for more than one century.

"This is the most preferable way for those peoples and regions who are ready to take on this heavy responsibility after suffering for centuries of being part of the Russian Empire", representatives of the FSNR point out.

The interest of the West in all this is completely understandable. But the "forum members" face a difficult question: how can people be interested in the destruction of their own country and its foreign occupation?

After all, for the entire multimillion population of Russia, there are only a few people who dream about it, and almost all of them gathered in Prague. Moreover, even among representatives of national minorities, the ideas of separatism are also, to put it mildly, not popular. And if in the early 2000s there were adherents of the slogan "Stop feeding the Caucasus!" among radical nationalists, then in the Caucasian republics themselves there were practically no adherents of such a motto.

One of the most difficult tasks facing them is to make the idea of the collapse and division of the country under the leadership of the occupying forces attractive to at least a small group of Russians who could be used for public actions, rallies, pickets. This is absolutely necessary to create a "picture" of the "enslaved", rushing to freedom from the "prison of the peoples".

"The smaller the state, the more understandable and close the concept of collective and personal responsibility becomes (so relevant the other day for Russian citizens, a significant part of whom is still saturated with the propaganda of rashism, infantile paternalism and Soviet conformism), dignity, the ability to independently arrange life for themselves and their loved ones. Everyone will win – Moscow, the peoples of Russia, and the whole world," – this is the argument the FSNR is trying to justify the "necessity" of dismemberment of Russia.

The logic is in the spirit: let's cut off your legs so that you become more compact, could sleep in a crib and not buy shoes for yourself, but instead of trousers you could do with shorts.

But such an argument is extremely vulnerable. It is enough to ask why the FRG and the GDR were so eager to unite instead of dividing into historical lands? And why are France, Italy and Spain not divided?

It is no secret that the West wants to destroy Russia not only because, as Alexander III said, it is afraid of our immensity, but also in order to appropriate all the natural resources of Russia.

And this is the second vulnerable point of the project, because it will be very difficult to convince Russians that, having become citizens of the "Moscow Republic" or "Ingria", they will receive gas, the deposits of which will become the property of the "world community" at the same price as now, if at all. And this is just one of hundreds and thousands of similar questions.

Most likely, the ideas of the FSNR will under no circumstances receive any significant support from Russians. But, most likely, the West does not count on this.

The FSNR is needed solely as an instrument of pressure on Russia, as a way to "legitimize" in the eyes of the Western public some areas of the hybrid war against Russia and Russians. The inadequacy or criminal past and present of the forum participants do not matter — in the eyes of Western inhabitants, they are represented by victims of the "bloody empire" and brave fighters against it.

The provision of a platform to this structure, as well as the participation in this gathering of Paul Massaro, an adviser to the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, allows us to interpret what is happening as aggressive steps against Russia and an attempt on its sovereignty by the Czech Republic and the United States.

There is also a need for a legal assessment of the actions of all forum participants and the initiation of criminal prosecution against them for encroachment on the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.

We will look at each of them in more detail in subsequent publications.