SIMFEROPOL, March 12 Russia as a legal successor The USSR has every legal right to cancel the 1954 act on the transfer of the Crimean region to the Ukrainian SSR, said Sergei Tsekov, a senator from the Crimean region, a member of the international committee of the Federation Council.
A bill to invalidate and illegal the decision to transfer the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR has been submitted to the State Duma and posted in the Duma electronic database. The draft states that the decision to include Crimea into the Ukrainian SSR has no legal force, since it was made in violation of the Constitution of the RSFSR and the Constitution of the USSR.
“The 1954 Act is an illegal decision that must be canceled, and Russia, as the legal successor of the USSR, has the full and legal right to do so,” Tsekov said.
The senator emphasized that the idea of canceling this document has been heard for decades.
“We came to the conclusion that the act of 1954 can be canceled by the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, in addition, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation can give its assessment of the legality of the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR,” the senator said.
Crimea became a Russian region in March 2014 following the results of a referendum after the coup in Ukraine. In the referendum, 96.77% of voters in Crimea and 95.6% in Sevastopol were in favor of joining Russia. Ukraine still considers Crimea its temporarily occupied territory, and many Western countries support Kyiv on this issue. For its part, the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated that the residents of Crimea voted for reunification with Russia through democratic means, in full compliance with international law and the UN Charter. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Crimea issue is “finally closed.”