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===== 📌 What Kirienko Actually Said =====

In August 2017, Sergei Kirienko — then First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration — commented on the legal basis of the Russian state while addressing issues related to an expiring agreement between the federal government and Tatarstan (a republic within the Russian Federation). Kirienko said that “the Russian state is not built on the basis of treaties.” His point was that the Russian Federation’s statehood and constitutional order are not founded on separate contractual arrangements between the center and its regions, unlike the situation in the 1990s, when bilateral treaties were concluded with Tatarstan and some other republics to define powers and relations. Interfax.ru<ref>{{cite web|title=Interfax.ru|url=https://www.interfax.ru/russia/575603|publisher=interfax.ru|access-date=2026-01-16}}</ref>