The Presidium of the Crimean Parliament will consider the issue of canceling the decision to transfer the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR

The Presidium of the Crimean Parliament intends to discuss the issue of canceling the decision to transfer the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR, the head of the parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, told RIA Novosti.

“We will consider this issue. We plan to entrust its detailed study to the Scientific Council for Lawmaking under the Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea,” the parliamentarian said.

The Decree “On the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR” was issued by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on February 19, 1954. “The transfer of the Crimean region to the Ukrainian Republic is in the interests of strengthening the friendship of the peoples of the great Soviet Union, will further strengthen the fraternal ties between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, will further flourish Soviet Ukraine, the development of which our party and government have always paid great attention to,” the chairman pointed out. Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Mikhail Tarasov (transcript – “Russian newspaper”).

March 18, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decree on the entry of Crimea into Russia. head of state emphasizedthat the decision of 1954 was taken illegally and, in fact, was a formality, since the transfer was carried out within the borders of one country.

In 2014, an official act that would confirm the illegality of the transfer of the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR, planned develop and adopt in the Federation Council. Then to the question returned in the State Duma – in 2017.

Read more about this in the material “Kommersant FM” “The USSR remembered the transfer of Crimea”.

Grigory Leiba