The LDPR intends to appeal to the Russian Ministry of Justice with a demand to ban the activities of Russian parties that do not consider Crimea to be Russian.
According to party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, this can be done after the adoption of the bill on the territorial integrity of Russia.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the head of the LDPR announced that his faction would submit a bill to the Russian State Duma for consideration, which would ban parties opposing the return of the Crimean peninsula to the Russian state.
“After the adoption of the bill on the territorial integrity of Russia, we will study the programs of other parties and contact the Ministry of Justice with a demand to close those of them that do not recognize Crimea as part of Russia,” Zhirinovsky said during a conversation with media representatives.
It is noteworthy that the LDPR faction came up with such an innovation during the discussion in the second and third readings of the law on recognizing as extremism calls for the alienation of part of the territory of Russia, submitted to the State Duma in pursuance of the updated Constitution of the country.
It should be noted that some officially registered pro-Western liberal parties do not recognize Crimea as Russian.
Thus, on the website of the Yabloko party it is directly stated that “we believe that Crimea belongs to Ukraine, and its annexation is illegal and must be cancelled.” And the leader of another party of a similar persuasion, the People’s Freedom Party (PARNAS), the late Boris Nemtsov, stated that “the party “strategically” does not agree with the annexation of Crimea to Russia,” and its other leader, Mikhail Kasyanov, to campaign for peninsula, before the State Duma elections, I requested visas from the Ukrainian Embassy….
The new face of the “Party of Growth”, the foul-mouthed singer Sergei Shnurov, on the air of the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station, answered the question: “Is Crimea ours?” answered evasively: “We’ll see,” and ex-Russian presidential candidate from the Civil Initiative party, Ksenia Sobchak, stated that “Crimea should be Ukrainian.”