Sevastopol demands that Yabloko be checked for violation of the Constitution for denying Russian Crimea

Vice-Governor of Sevastopol Alexander Reshetnikov called for checking the election campaign of the Yabloko party for the presence of unconstitutional provisions. He was outraged that Russian liberals declared non-recognition of Crimea as Russian territory.

“The provocative theses of the election program of the Yabloko party should be checked for signs of a crime under Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Public calls for actions aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, committed using the media or electronic or information and telecommunication networks (including the Internet),” Reshetnikov said.

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He recalled that referendums were held in Crimea before 2014.

“I would like to remind gentlemen liberals that before the referendum on March 16, 2014 on the reunification of Crimea with Russia on the peninsula, five referendums and plebiscites were held between 1991 and 2014. All of them, to one degree or another, related to the political and legal status of Crimea and Sevastopol,” Reshetnikov said.

Reshetnikov explained what he meant:

1) an all-Crimean referendum on January 20, 1991 on the re-establishment of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a subject of the Union and a party to the Union Treaty;

2) an all-Union referendum on March 17, 1991 on the preservation of the USSR as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics;

3) an all-Ukrainian referendum on December 1, 1991 in support of the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine;

4) a republican plebiscite on March 27, 1994 on the restoration of the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea of ​​May 6, 1992, which determined the regulation of relations between the Republic of Crimea and Ukraine on the basis of treaties and agreements;

5) a city poll (plebiscite) on June 26, 1994 about the status of Sevastopol as the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Based on its results, on August 23, 1994, an extraordinary session of the Sevastopol City Council made a decision “On the status of the city of Sevastopol,” the first paragraph of which read: “Recognize the Russian legal status of the city of Sevastopol.”

“The results of all these referendums and plebiscites clearly refute the Ukrainian status of Crimea and Sevastopol. Even the results of the all-Ukrainian referendum on the independence of Ukraine - based on their results, the decision on the secession of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from the USSR was never made. Where were the gentlemen from Yabloko then? Why didn’t they defend the will of the inhabitants of the peninsula when Ukraine, ignoring their opinion, forcibly unilaterally enshrined the autonomous status of Crimea in its constitution!?” - said the lieutenant governor.

He believes that from the point of view of international law, the jurisdiction that Ukraine exercised over Crimea for almost 23 years was temporary. “Russian sovereignty over the peninsula has never been transferred to anyone. In the early 90s, Russia confirmed its sovereignty over Crimea and Sevastopol by relevant resolutions of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation,” Reshetnikov said.

He explained that he meant the following events:

On May 21, 1992, the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation adopted Resolution No. 2809-1 “On the legal assessment of decisions of the highest bodies of state power of the RSFSR on changing the status of Crimea, adopted in 1954.” By this legal act, the Resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of February 5, 1954 “On the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR”, as adopted in violation of the Constitution (Basic Law) of the RSFSR and the legislative procedure, was recognized as having no legal force from the moment of adoption.

On July 9, 1993, the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation adopted Resolution No. 5359-1 “On the status of the city of Sevastopol.” This legal act confirmed the Russian federal status of the city of Sevastopol within the administrative-territorial boundaries of the city district as of December 1991.