The Russian Supreme Court eliminated the Taliban Board in Afghanistan on Thursday of its terrorism surveillance list, raiding the way for President Vladimir Putin to more cooperation with the Islamist regime to form the first world rules as legitimate thephles.
Russia forbidden The Taliban as a terrorist organization in 2003, in part because the Taliban supported Chehen Insubents against Moscow. This was not a transgression that the Russians considered easy to forget. According to the reports, a senior Russian official said that when Chief Taliban Mullah Omar offered to join forces with Moscow against the “American aggression” in 2001, the Kremlin response was: “F ** K OFF”.
The times changed and fortune tides changed. In 2015, the Russians began talking to the Taliban again. After President Joe Biden’s Disastrous retirement From Afghanistan in 2021, the Russians were very interested in doing business with the Taliban, who wants Buy oil Of Russia and pay with valuable minerals.
The Russian embassy in Kabul remained open while Biden was leaving Afghanistan, although Russia has not formally recognized the Taliban government or established diplomatic relations with him.
In May 2024, Russian sent Zamir Kabulov saying There were only “a few obstacles” to eliminate the Taliban from the list of prohibited terrorist organizations of Russia. The Russians began to urge Western nations to ignore the registry of barbaric human rights of the Taliban, raise their sanctions and “recognize their responsibility for the reconstruction after the Afghanistan conflict.”
Putin began the process of raising the terrorist designation of the Taliban last year, greeting the Taliban as a partner against terrorism. Referred to the enmity of the Taliban for the Islamic State, which supposedly delicate 145 people in a concert hall near Moscow in a March 2024 attack.
The Supreme Court of Russia issued a decision in Thorsday that effective completed the process of excluding Taliban as terrorists. The court did not order the Putin government to formally recognize the legitimacy of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” of the Taliban, but that option is now on the table if Putin chooses to exercise it.
Deutsche Welle (DW) Thursday suggestion Putin could have wanted to complete the certification process of the Taliban as terrorism free because the same option for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Syrian Islamist Rebel Group described
The Russians gave Assad Refugio after fleeing from Damascus, but they have no illusions about reinstalling it as Syria ruler, so they could want to develop a relationship with the board that replaced it.
According to Russian law, doing business with a designated terrorist group is illegal, so eliminating the Taliban from the terrorist list makes Russian companies reach the agreements in Afghanistan. A similar reasoning could motivate Putin to eliminate HTS, which was designated As a terrorist organization of Russia in 2020, at a time when Kremlin was working to keep Assad in power.