SIMFEROPOL, Apr 7The deprivation of the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma of the title of honorary citizen of the city of Sevastopol should have legal grounds, a commission has been created to study this issue, local deputies told RIA Novosti, whose opinions on this issue were divided. will consider the legal grounds for depriving Kuchma of the title of honorary citizen of the city, the press service of the city parliament said earlier. «This is my proposal. I was present at the session when he was awarded this title. Our only faction voted against it. in accordance with the regulation «On Honorary Citizen of Sevastopol». Now there is an urgent need to correct this mistake. A commission has been created that will comprehensively consider this issue and submit it to the session of the legislative assembly,» Vasily Parkhomenko, deputy of the city's parliament from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, told RIA Novosti. He added that in the legislature and there are «doubters» that the decision should immediately be taken by parliament. It is in this connection that the issue will be carefully studied by the Commission. Then it can be considered at the session on April 19, the deputy said. In turn, deputy of the legislative assembly Vyacheslav Gorelov explained to the agency that the grounds for deprivation of the title must comply with the law, and personally he is not a supporter of such a decision. «I would not support such a decision. I think the following: history is what it is. If this name sounded in history, it was destined to. The procedure for depriving an honorary title is provided for in the law: first, if a person is under criminal prosecution and the court decides that he is guilty. And second, for others deed, but with the holding of a city referendum on this matter,» Gorelov said. In any case, he believes, the situation suggests that it is necessary to be extremely careful in decisions on conferring the title of «honorary citizen of Sevastopol» on someone. Previously, the speaker of the State Council Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov said that the parliament is preparing a bill on the deprivation of honorary titles of individuals, in accordance with it, the ex-president Ukraine Leonid Kuchma will be deprived of the title of «Honorary Crimean», ex-Prime Minister of Crimea Sergei Kunitsyn and boxer Alexander Usik — insignia «For fidelity to duty.» The head of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, supported the initiative of the deputies.
