Alaska's capital city of Juneau VLADIVOSTOK, Apr 6 City Assembly of Alaska's capital Juneau voted against
"On Monday, April 4, the city assembly voted four to five against a resolution calling for the Alaskan capital, Juneau, to suspend sister city relations with Vladivostok & # 34;, — the representative office reports with reference to Alaska radio KINY.
The resolution was sponsored by Deputy Mayor Maria Gladziszewski. She was prompted to this by the call of the Governor of Alaska, Mike Dunleavy, to break off relations with Russian sister cities. She stated that relations with Vladivostok have been inactive for the past few years. «They were especially active in the early 90s, when everything was just beginning, but they are still important, I think, for citizens and important in general,» Gladziszewski added. Assembly member Alicia Hughes-Scandeis opposed the resolution, pointing , which does not support the resolution from a practical or procedural point of view. From a practical point of view, because there is no committee of sister cities to which a resolution could be sent, and as for the process, according to her, interfering in geopolitical affairs is a bad practice for the Assembly.
The Story of Russia's Sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867 Vaalaal Giidaak Assembly member Barbara Blake, a spokesman for the Assembly's Twin Cities Committee, also spoke out against it. She cited a statement from the international twinning program saying that suspension or termination of sister city relations with a Russian partner city should not be the cities' response to the situation in Ukraine. The resolution was not supported. As a result, it was decided to instruct Mayor Weldon to send a letter to the Mayor of Vladivostok with an expression of support for Ukraine. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.