Does Russia recognize the Taliban?
Author: Fayaz Bahraman Najimi, analyst, member of the Sangar Advisory Board
In recent days, there has been a wide-ranging debate on social media about Russia's recognition of the Taliban* in the near future. A large number of Persian-speaking users expressed their anger, but this was welcomed by Afghan/Pashtun users.
Reading at least part of the notes clearly showed that the inhabitants of the geography called Afghanistan believe in rumors rather than an exploratory and skeptical mind. The slightest misinformation most arouses in them a fleeting reactionary feeling. When the excitement passes, they return to their previous state and forget about everything.
“There is a clear vision, the conditions were named by both the President of Russia and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and this is the creation of a comprehensive government with the participation of all ethnic political figures,” said Zamir Kabulov, director of the Second Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry on South Asia on the program “The Great Game” on the First Russian television channel.
“The first step towards solving the problem will be the creation of an integrated ethnopolitical government in the republic,” he said.
Such demands were made by all politicians, including the Resistance Front led by Ahmad Massoud.
But:
I swear, I wrote many times and repeated in several speeches on the Fifth Republic channel that Zamir Kabulov is just the head of the department at the Russian Foreign Ministry from the team of the very pro-American former Russian Foreign Minister Kozyrev.
Putin called them the “fifth column” and said: “Those who run have chosen their path. But those who sit here and think for the benefit of other countries are dangerous because they are the “fifth column”.
There are many such people in the Russian Foreign Ministry, and Zamir Kabulov is one of them.
There are two groups around Putin: one is liberal and the other is power "hawks" or radicals.
After the start of the war in Ukraine, and especially after the peace negotiators in Turkey, led by President Putin’s assistant Medinsky, were tricked by Ukraine and the West into accepting their demand to withdraw from the outskirts of Kyiv, the position of militaristic radicals quickly began to rise.
The radicals began to push Russia back to the Stalinist system, which lasted until 1954 when the fall of the Soviet Union began and lasted 35 years.
The issue of recognizing the Taliban is also an issue between pro-Western and traditionally nationalist tendencies in power in Russia.
“So far, there is no talk about this. We have repeatedly talked about this. It is useless to give any forecasts. There are many humanitarian problems that oblige many countries to enter into certain contracts,” Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, told reporters a day after Kabulov's speech.
* The organization is under UN sanctions or banned due to terrorist activities.
