Vladimir Džabarov, First Deputy Head of the International Committee The Federation Council expressed the view that the Soviet Union could not cease to exist on December 26, 1991, if “Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had the political will.” According to Jabarov, after signing the Belovezhskaya agreements, Gorbachev was to distance himself from the document and bring the negotiators to justice.
According to Jabarov, some at the time of the events assumed that it was not the disintegration of the country, but the emergence of a new form of statehood.