Expert: The capital status of Simferopol is an attempt to subjugate Sevastopol
Moscow - Kyiv, November 25 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The State Council of Crimea intends to adopt a law establishing the powers of Simferopol as the capital of Crimea. This is an attempt by the Crimean authorities to subjugate Sevastopol, experts say.
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Increasing the status will allow one to gain an advantage in the allocation of budget funds, and “the city leadership will be able to participate in the consideration of the republic’s budget, events and programs of regional importance,” explained the head of the city administration, Gennady Bakharev. He added that capital status will also allow the city to create a municipal television channel and radio station.
However, experts suspect that the bill on the capital of Simferopol is a veiled attempt by the Crimean authorities to subjugate Sevastopol. Kommersant In this regard, he recalls that when the peninsula was annexed to Russia, “there was an option” according to which the now independent region of Sevastopol would be part of Crimea, and the speaker of the State Council of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, called such a unification “logical.”
A clear definition of the capital status of Simferopol in connection with the possible unification of Crimea and Sevastopol is unlikely, says the head of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, Mikhail Vinogradov: “The federal authorities are aware of the number of contradictions. When it is necessary to create the illusion of their absence, attempts to unite Crimea and Sevastopol are undesirable.”
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