The move appears to be aimed at creating a legal basis for Russia to claim that Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, was never part of Ukraine
Russian MPs submitted a bill to the State Duma with which they will rewrite a chapter of history, overturning the Soviet Union’s decision to cede the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine.
This action appears to be aimed at creating a legal basis for Russia to claim that Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, it was never part of Ukraine.
The bill, introduced by members of both houses of the Russian parliament, calls the 1954 cession of Crimea to Ukraine arbitrary and illegal because no referendum was held and, in addition, the Soviet authorities did not have the right to cede territory from one republic to another. , without their consent.
It has not been specified when the bill will be debated.
The Russian president Vladimir Putin had denounced the concession of Crimea to Ukraine by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, claiming that the legal rules of the time were violated. The people of Crimea they had voted for independence, along with those of the rest of Ukraine, in the referendum organized when the Soviet Union dissolved. Russia and Ukraine have since recognized each other’s borders, but Moscow seized Crimea in 2014 and annexed it following a referendum that Kiev and Western countries consider illegitimate.
Source :Skai
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