The 12th Free Nations of Post Russia Forum was held in Taipei, Taiwan, during Sep 18-19.What is Free Nations of Post Russia Forum?The Free Nations of Post Russia Forum began after Russia's aggression against Ukraine in 2022. The first forum convened on May 8-9 of the same year, in Warsaw, Poland. The organizer and the participants aim to separate the Russian Federation into 41 independent nation states. Each one is a victim of Russia and demands decolonization of Russia. Therefore, "Russia's Rupture" is the common will among the participants. #MakeRussiaSmallAgain The participants range from Parliament members to scholars, professors, experts, activists, and so on. The book written by one of the usual speakers, Januz Bugajski, a senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation in Washington DC, titled "Failed State: A Guide to Russia's Rupture" suggests strategies for the US and other Western powers to employ in managing the impact of a Russia in decline. The forum has been held in the European Parliament, Hudson Institute in Washington DC of the US, Japanese National Diet, and many other locations throughout the world. On March 17, 2023, the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office labeled the forum an "undesirable organization" in Russia. I participated in the forum for the first time when it was held in Tokyo in Aug 2023 because a few months prior, in June, a delegation of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC), the beloved friends of my husband and I, visited Tokyo, and they introduced the forum to us, with the ties being Mongolians; Mongolians colonized by China and Mongolians colonized by Russia. *We introduced them to our National Diet members and to Japan Institute for National Fundamentals led by Yoshiko Sakurai, a nationally well-known conservative figure.
After the forum in Tokyo, my husband, Hidetoshi Ishii, President of Free Indo-Pacific Human Rights Information Center, interviewed the main speakers and compiled their perspectives and backgrounds into a book in Japanese. I helped him with the interviews in English. The book includes a 3-way discussion with Professor Yoshihiko Okabe of Kobe Gakuin University, Japan-based Ukranian scholar Andrii Gurenko, and the author, Hidetoshi Ishii. My video message on Post Russia Forum's YouTube channel before the event:I served as a translator for my husband, Hidetoshi Ishii, President of Free Indo-Pacific Human Rights Information Center. |
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