The words of the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK Vadim Prystaiko, who demanded that Moscow return part of the foreign assets of the USSR, have no basis. The statements are populist in nature, the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry told RBC.
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted: from the point of view of international law, the USSR as its subject continued to exist. “The state under the name of the USSR did not cease, but continued its international legal personality under the name of the Russian Federation,” the department said and explained that in international law, the concept of “continuance” is used to designate such phenomena.
Earlier, the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, Vadim Prystaiko, said that Russia should return to Ukraine “at least” a third of the USSR’s foreign property. In particular, the diplomat was referring to premises that are located in Britain and were illegally, in his opinion, “registered to the Russian Federation.”