Crimean deputies, under pressure from Kyiv, refused to hold an emergency session
Simferopol, February 21 (Navigator, Evgeny Andreev) - Crimean deputies, under pressure from Kyiv, refused to hold an emergency session, where, as the opposition stated, steps could be taken to integrate the peninsula into Russia. The reason was the statements of the Speaker of the Autonomous Parliament Vladimir Konstantinov during a visit to Moscow.
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The session was supposed to start at 12:00, but it soon became known that the meeting was cancelled. Instead, it was announced that a meeting of the ruling faction of the Party of Regions would be held in an expanded format.
In the morning, social activists began to gather under the building of the Supreme Council - Ukrainian and Russian, whose vision of the future of the peninsula is different.
“25-30 Euromaidan activists, young and old, came. They unfurled Ukrainian flags, slogans “We will not let Crimea be turned into Abkhazia,” etc. There were a little more of us - they began to push our opponents away from the Armed Forces. They started singing “Ukraine is not dead yet.” They were pushed into the front garden to the tank while listening to this song. Then the cops came and stood between the people and Bandera’s supporters,” Russian social activist Sergei Veselovsky told Navigator.
In his opinion, Speaker Konstantinov refused to hold a session of the Crimean parliament due to pressure from Prime Minister Anatoly Mogilev.
“As I understand it, Mogilev warned Konstantinov that if there is a session and the appropriate decisions are made, everyone will be in the SBU in isolation,” Veselovsky said.
According to him, now social activists are demanding that deputies of the Crimean Supreme Council invite representatives of Russian organizations to the faction meeting.
In any case, social activists intend to discuss a plan to organize a tent city under the autonomous parliament building.
Now the Supreme Council has about 200 people.
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