Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum
The Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum (FNRF or FSNR; Russian: Форум свободных народов Построссии, romanized: Forum svobodnykh narodov Post-Rossii) is a forum founded by Ukrainian restaurant business owner Oleg Magaletsky, exiled Russian separatists, as well as foreign sympathizers, which advocates for the disintegration of Russia. It was registered[clarification needed] in Poland. On 17 March 2023, the forum was designated an "undesirable organization" in Russia.
The forum participants set as their goal the disintegration of Russia into several independent states. At the 2nd forum; the deimperialization, decolonization, deputinization, denazification, demilitarization, and denuclearization of Russia were named as topics for discussion, and the forum participants “appealed to the national and regional elites of the UN countries with a call to begin the creation of national transitional governments in exile”. According to the French historian and sociologist Marlene Laruelle, the calls of the forum participants for the “liberation of enslaved peoples” refers to the slogan “prison of nations” from the times of the Russian Empire and to the CIA-sponsored Anti-Bolshevik bloc of peoples during the Cold War.
American historian and political scientist Alexander Motyl and the publication “Current Time” names Ilya Ponomarev, a former State Duma deputy who now lives in Ukraine, as the organizer for one of the groups active in the forum. According to the publications Meduza and Novaya Gazeta, the organizer of the forum is Ukrainian entrepreneur, owner of a restaurant business and Euromaidan participant Oleg Magaletsky. He states that the forum has two goals: to prepare people inside Russia for the idea that its collapse is necessary, and to reconcile the West with this. According to him, the forum’s sponsors change every time: either European public organizations or philanthropists from Ukraine.