SIMFEROPOL, May 20. Transfer of Crimea to Ukrainian The SSR was not legally formalized in 1954, said the head of the regional parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov.
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“We have formed our claims. Looking closely at this issue, it becomes clear that we never left the composition of the Russian Federation, whose borders did not change in 1954, and therefore in 2014. That is, the process of our transfer and acceptance was not only a gross disregard for the political will of the Crimeans, it was not legally formalized,” he said.
According to Konstantinov, preparing a justification for canceling the decision to transfer Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR will not take as much time as it might seem at first glance.
«We are dealing with a very serious volume of gross violations. These are not some complex casuistic legal norms that need to be proven. The violations committed are so gross and flagrant that we still wonder how this could happen But it happened,» the head of parliament stressed.
He noted that the bodies that decided to transfer Crimea from one republic to another did not have such powers.
«It's as if the Crimean State Council decided to transfer Texas to Mexico. This is the first. Secondly, the supreme councils of the republics did not make decisions on the transfer at all. And thirdly, the borders of the union republics were not discussed and designated after the change» «Crimea, and this is a key moment in making such a decision. This is not to mention the fact that referendums were not held, which were implied by the Constitution of the USSR,» Konstantinov explained.
In addition, the head of parliament recalled that when Crimea was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR, there was no document that would stipulate guarantees for the protection of cultural, linguistic and all regional traditions.
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"All this is only a small part of the violations that were committed. And proceeding from this, Crimea is part of Russia under the legislation that was in force until 1954, and has never fallen out of its composition,” the politician concluded. Decree of 1954 on the transfer of the peninsula to Ukraine.
The Crimean region was part of the RSFSR until February 19, 1954, when the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree transferring the region to the Ukrainian SSR. The initiator of the decree is the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who worked in Ukraine for a long time. After the collapse of the USSR, the peninsula remained part of the neighboring republic.