The history of Russia is full of tragic episodes in terms of relations with its neighbours. Belarus, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Estonia have repeatedly faced Russia's imperial policies. Putin’s regime has continued this "tradition". Russian society cannot become free and fair, cannot create conditions for a safe and lasting peace without acknowledging mistakes and crimes committed in the past and present, and without repenting for them.

The Congress of National Deputies takes the first step towards reconciliation with its neighbours. The Congress declares that it considers the following as crimes:

• Repeated attempts to destroy Ukrainian statehood, the Holodomor, repression and terror against the national intelligentsia and participants of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, forced Russification of the Ukrainian SSR, conducting an imperial war against Ukraine and organising terror against the civilian population during this war;
• The conspiracy of the Stalinist and Hitler regimes (the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), which paved the way for the bloodiest war in human history;
• Repeated attacks on Finland;
• Mass murders of Polish citizens in Katyn, Mednoye, and other places; hindering an objective international investigation into the death of the Polish President's plane crash in Smolensk in 2010;
• Conducting falsified referendums in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in 1940, which marked the beginning of a half-century occupation of these countries;
• Mass deportations of Ukrainians, Poles, residents of the Baltic states, and killing the participants of the resistance movement after World War II;
• The use of the Soviet army to suppress national movements in Poland, East Germany, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia;
• The division of Romania, the dismemberment of Moldova and the creation of a pro-Russian regime in some of its territory;
• The division of spheres of influence in Europe and the deprivation of Eastern European countries of real independence;
• Attempts to suppress the independence movement in the Baltic states;
• Assistance to the authoritarian regime in Belarus in suppressing democratic freedoms.

The Congress of National Deputies declares: the new Russia puts an end to the imperial practices of the past and is ready to build relations with other countries on a fair and equal basis. These principles will be enshrined in law and will guide the activities of the government of the free Russia.

For your freedom and ours!

Warsaw, 11 June 2023, III session of the Congress