Russian President

finds himself increasingly in international isolation.

The West ignores the Kremlin's hints that it is ready for negotiations and increases the pressure.

The administration of US President Joe Biden is working to recognize Russia as a "state sponsor of terrorism".

The European Parliament has already voted for a resolution declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

Similar decisions were made by NATO, the Netherlands and Poland.

In addition, American congressmen took the initiative to exclude Russia from the UN Security Council.

The weekly magazine The Week placed the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on its cover among the persons of 2022.

The American and British versions of the publication portrayed Putin as an outcast.

In the first version, a blood-stained portrait of the Russian dictator hangs on a tree, while Western leaders celebrate Christmas with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In the British version, Putin in military uniform tries to destroy a snowman wearing a blue and yellow hat and scarf.

More and more countries are turning away from Russia, against this background the Kremlin is increasing contacts with the CIS states and authoritarian regimes such as Iran and North Korea.

TSN.ua gathered the opinions of experts regarding the prospects of international isolation of the Kremlin.

Putin was humiliated at two summits

Russian President Vladimir Putin was publicly humiliated at two summits, after which the Kremlin leader adopted a package of "suicidal" decisions, publicist and sociologist 

said .

Piontkovskyi reminded that in September-October there were two summits - the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Samarkand and the Conference on Cooperation and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Astana.

"In Samarkand, at the SCO summit, Xi and Modi publicly "whipped" him. In front of the eyes of the whole world, they read notations that this is not how people behave in the 21st century, especially nuclear blackmail is unacceptable. Nuclear blackmail caused a sharp reaction not only from the USA, but also from China, and India. And then he went to Astana. There were smaller colleagues, the so-called CIS summit, but there he was even more humiliated. The seemingly loyal vassals Rakhmon and Berdymukhammedov said - Volodymyr Volodymyrovych, why do you continue to treat us like union republics? We are no longer union republics," he reminded.

According to Piontkovsky, Putin, returning to Moscow, adopted a package of "suicide decisions" - mobilization, annexation of the territories of four regions of Ukraine, as well as the detonation of both "Nordic Streams".

It should also be noted that world leaders boycotted the Russian delegation at the G20 summit held in Bali on November 15.

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not go to the summit, but sent Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

During the G20 summit, Sergey Lavrov was ignored by almost all representatives of other states.

He met with only one diplomat — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Lavrov fled the G20 summit an hour before the mass shelling of Ukraine.

The Kremlin showed "unprecedented activity"

To compensate for the lack of real international victories, Russia has 

, notes Russian human rights activist and blogger

.

He commented on the informal summit of the CIS leaders in St. Petersburg on December 26, where the participants summed up the results of cooperation in 2022, and Putin announced the differences between the CIS members.

"In addition to Lukashenka, the main figures from Central Asia have gathered, Azerbaijan, Armenia are represented. Putin is showing unprecedented activity. Over the past month or a half, they have been meeting in a wider or narrower composition - the CSTO, the SCO in Samarkand, EurAsEC," Feigin said in a conversation with an adviser Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovych.

According to him, "

."

"Despite the fact that Putin always drags everyone somewhere - sometimes he called Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan into the gas union, then he actively makes efforts in the direction of Armenia-Azerbaijan, tries to play on the situation that he can manage," the blogger added.

In turn,

noted that Putin has lost international influence and largely isolated Russia.

"He is forced to rely on the resources that are available to him. CIS partly depends on him, he acts in the field that is available. Secondly, he depicts by the end of the year the absence of a message to the Federal Assembly, the absence of meetings with big business, the absence of speeches, etc. tenth,

on, "Arestovych explained.

The adviser of the OPU reminded that December 30 is the day of the 100th anniversary of the USSR.

"

. Activity is going on, this is the former Soviet Union, everyone is shaking hands, everyone is meeting, talking, and the leader of this, as before, remains Moscow. Man is trying to manage it the resource it has," he said.

Russia's three main allies in the war

, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine ,

called Iran, Belarus and North Korea Russia's allies in the war against Ukraine.

"Iran (drones/missiles), North Korea (ammunition/weapons), Belarus (infrastructure/territory/technique). Factually and legally confirmed allies of Russia in the format of occupation war, mass killings of civilians and deliberate destruction of Ukrainian cities. There will be joint responsibility" , he noted.

As you know, Russia began actively launching Iranian Shahed-136 drones over Ukraine in the fall.

The occupiers repainted them and renamed them "Geranium".

The main target of kamikaze drones was the energy infrastructure of Ukraine.

At first, Iran categorically denied that it had handed over its drones to Russia.

Later, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran admitted that these were their drones, but stated that several drones were allegedly sold to Russia before February 24.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia is negotiating with Iran to purchase ballistic missiles to replenish its stockpile.

In turn, North Korea, according to US intelligence, secretly supplies ammunition to Russia, which can then be used in the war against Ukraine.

"In September, North Korea publicly denied that it intended to supply ammunition to Russia. However, our information indicates that North Korea is secretly supplying Russia with a significant amount of artillery shells for its war in Ukraine, while concealing the true destination of the arms shipments, trying to make it look like they are going to countries of the Middle East or North Africa," said White House spokesman John Kirby.

The leadership of the DPRK predictably rejects all accusations.

Military expert

believes that Iran and the DPRK do not have enough weapons and equipment to provide for Russia. 

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