News archive on the topic "Referendum in Crimea"

Russian Alexander Franchetti, who spent 13 months in prison in the Czech Republic for participating in the preparation and conduct of the Crimean referendum, intends to start rescuing his compatriots from imprisonment abroad. The current system of assistance to those convicted for political reasons or trumped-up charges is aimed at enriching lawyers, and not achieving results, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In an interview for the Sevastopol portal ForPost, Franchetti said...

8 years ago, a Crimean referendum took place, the vast majority of participants in which were in favor of the reunification of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia. Back at the end of January 2014, the Supreme Council of Crimea adopted a resolution that clearly stated that Crimea would not remain part of Bandera’s Ukraine. On March 11, 2014, in the context of a coup d’etat in Kyiv and the collapse of the constitutional…

Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the referendum on restoring autonomy in Crimea. Turnout exceeded 81%. More than 93% of Crimeans voted “for”. The results of the plebiscite became a real time bomb for Ukrainian “independence”. The historical significance of the all-Crimean referendum of 1991 lies in the fact that it was the first attempt to determine the fate of Crimea not by an administrative directive from above, but by a collective and conscious decision...

Kyiv, with the current level of corruption and uncontrolled border, has no chance of membership in the European Union. Ukrainians must understand that the EU means an even greater loss of sovereignty, as well as agreement to the economic rules of the game that are beneficial, first of all, to Western European countries. Industrialists in EU countries are increasingly demanding the lifting of sanctions against Russia. Residents of Donbass and Crimea had the right to...

According to the director of the personal and strategic consulting company Berta Communications, Taras Berezovets, no more than 30% of the population of Crimea voted in the referendum on the annexation of Crimea to Russia, and the majority voted for Crimea to remain part of Ukraine. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Kyiv” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “At best, up to 30% of the population voted in the referendum. U...

With the help of sanctions, the United States hopes that an economically weakened Russia will return Donbass to Ukraine and then agree to a second referendum in Crimea. Ariel Cohen, a senior expert at the Atlantic Council and director of the Center for Energy, Natural Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for Global Security Analysis, stated this in an interview with the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper. Subscribe to the news "PolitNavigator - Kyiv" on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte "The main condition...

The well-known presenter Sergei Dorenko joined the campaign for a second referendum on the entry of Crimea into Russia - for recognition of the new borders of the Russian Federation by the West. On Monday, Dorenko devoted part of his broadcast to this issue on radio “Moscow Speaks”. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Crimea” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte He believes that the messages that appeared in the media about the possibility of holding such a referendum are “this...

Residents of Sevastopol are more skeptical compared to the rest of Crimea a year after the referendum. The relevant data from a sociological study were published by the Public Opinion Foundation. Subscribe to the news “PolitNavigator - Crimea” on Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte In Sevastopol, there are still more people who support last year’s decision to reunite with Russia than in the rest of Crimea. However, in the city of Russian sailors (perhaps due to the smaller...

Kyiv - Berlin, March 31 (Navigator, Alisa Filatova) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble compared the annexation of Crimea to Russia with the annexation of the Sudetenland by Adolf Hitler, reports the online edition of the magazine Der Spiegel. Subscribe to the Navigator - Kyiv news on Facebook or VKontakte “Hitler already used such methods in the Sudetenland,” said the second person in the hierarchy of the ruling Christian Democratic Union, Wolfgang Schäuble, in front of 50...

Moscow - Sevastopol, March 26 (Navigator, Viktor Yadukha) - In his Crimean speech, Vladimir Putin was the first of the leaders of the Russian Federation to lift the taboo on the word “Russian”. Does he understand that it is impossible to do this in foreign policy and prohibit it in domestic policy? And what kind of Russia is our president reviving? A news agency columnist writes about this in an author’s column for Navigator...

Sevastopol, March 20 (Navigator, Elena Ostryakova) – Russian flags are raised on Ukrainian ships based in Streletskaya Bay in Sevastopol. Local residents reported this to Navigator. Subscribe to the news “Navigator - Crimea” on Facebook or Vkontakte In Streletskaya Bay there was a base for surface ships of the Ukrainian Navy. “The command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces must be accused of criminal inactivity and be held accountable under the law for...

Moscow - Sevastopol, March 18 (Navigator, Alisa Filatova) - Russia will officially strengthen its military group in Sevastopol - additional marine forces will be deployed here and new ships will arrive. Member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense Igor Korotchenko said this in an interview with RBC Daily. Subscribe to the news “Navigator - Crimea” >>> “The Black Sea Fleet needs to be strengthened, we have...

Simferopol - Moscow, March 18 (Navigator, Alisa Filatova) - In Moscow, the entry of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation as two separate entities is considered realistic, the Izvestia newspaper writes. Subscribe to the Navigator - Crimea news >>> “We have Moscow and St. Petersburg as separate entities. These are cities of federal significance that have their own territory, population, government and local authorities...

Kyiv - Paris, March 17 (Navigator, Alisa Filatova) - Chairman of the French National Front Marine Le Pen recognized the results of Sunday's referendum on the political status of Crimea, French media reported. Subscribe to Navigator - Kyiv news >>> “In my opinion, the results of the referendum are indisputable,” Le Pen said at a press conference, adding that the results were “absolutely predictable.” According to her, people...