In Crimea, they will prepare requests to the Constitutional Court on the legitimacy of the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR

A working group at the Crimean Parliament is developing two requests to the Constitutional Court on the issue of the legitimacy of the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. The draft request is planned to be submitted at the opening of the autumn session of parliament. About this “RIA Novosti” informed member of the Legislative Assembly of the region Sergei Trofimov.

The first request, as Trofimov clarified, refers to the compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation of the USSR law of April 26, 1954 “On the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.” The second request is related to the official interpretation of the provisions of the Russian Constitution. The preparation of requests is expected to be completed in late July – early August.

The fact that the Crimean Parliament intends to appeal to the Constitutional Court became known in May. A working group was formed, which was preparing a draft appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation in order to recognize as illegitimate the transfer of the peninsula to Ukraine during the Soviet period. Vladimir Konstantinov, chairman of the State Council of the Republic, said that they did not find a single reason for transferring the peninsula from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. He explained that he considers it necessary to “state the insignificance” of these documents, although it is impossible to cancel “the impact of the acts of 1954, which distorted the fate of hundreds of thousands of people.”

Crimea was included in the Ukrainian SSR on February 19, 1954. It is believed that the initiator of the transfer of Crimea was the first secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Nikita Khrushchev. From 1938 to 1949, with a short break, he headed the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, that is, he actually led the republic. One of the explanations for the change in the “registration” of the Crimea was the difficult economic situation on the peninsula after the war. Crimea became part of Russia again in 2014 after a referendum. In 2015, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation considered the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 unconstitutional.