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MOSCOW, Jan 21The initiative of Russian deputies on the need to recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics and its consideration in parliament creates the necessary background for negotiations between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken — the United States must understand that this will be an alternative way if Western countries do not force Kiev fulfill the Minsk agreements, Vladimir Zharikhin, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries, told RIA Novosti RIA Novosti. with the leadership of the republics in order to create a legal basis for interstate relations and to regulate all aspects of cooperation and mutual assistance. On Friday, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that consultations with the leaders of the State Duma factions regarding the initiative of the Communist Party deputies on the need to recognize the LPR and DPR would be held next week. />07:28 Media: Britain deployed fighters of an elite military unit to Ukraine Blinken and Lavrov will meet on Friday in Geneva in an attempt to defuse regional tensions. It is expected that the main issue at the meeting will be Russian proposals on security guarantees, which include the requirement not to expand NATO at the expense of Ukraine and Georgia, the withdrawal of the alliance's weapons to the positions of 1997 and the non-deployment of strike weapons at Russian borders. «Of course, this idea has prospects. «But now intensive negotiations are underway around the situation in Ukraine. We know that Lavrov and Blinken are meeting today and will discuss this issue. Therefore, this initiative should create a certain, necessary background for these negotiations,» Zharikhin said. years, at the instigation of Western countries, primarily the United States, has been sabotaging the implementation of the Minsk agreements on the settlement in Donbass.11:02 Kiev is preparing for active hostilities, the DPR said «Therefore, now the proposal of a group of deputies is, to a certain extent, an alternative in the course of negotiations — if there are no constructive decisions, then there is such a way out. I believe that the idea has the right to exist and a certain sense, but this does not mean that it should be accepted instantly, but I emphasize that this is an alternative, if during the negotiations it turns out once again that in fact the United States is not at all interested in the problem being solved,» Zharikhin added. .Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that he does not consider it possible to say something about the appeal of deputies on the recognition of the LPR and DPR before voting on it in the State Duma. January 9, 18:56 Zakharova called the Minsk agreements «living water» for Ukraine security. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from creating military bases in post-Soviet countries. On January 10, Russia and the United States held a new round of dialogue on strategic stability in Geneva. It was followed by a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels. It was followed on Thursday, January 13, by consultations at the Vienna site of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The main focus of these discussions was the security proposals that the Russian side presented to the US and NATO at the end of last year against the background of the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine.