A widely derided referendum has now shackled Aliaksandr Lukashenka to his master's fate. If Putin fails, so too will Lukashenka, amended constitution or ...
It has the same power to impeach the president; the members of the assembly are selected and catechized for loyalty. It looks like Putin has decided to become a new sobiratel’ zemel russkikh, or Gatherer of the Russian Lands as Ivan III was known. Both embed the primacy of the respective constitutions over every other source of law, and state that no external agreement has a superior status. Claudia Palazzo is an Italian journalist and political analyst on Eurasian affairs. There has been speculation that he may seek the top role in the new assembly, given it has notional powers to monitor and impeach the president. Both require the preservation of “historical memory” as a constitutional duty.