A bill was introduced to the Russian State Duma to invalidate the 1954 decision on the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the RSFSR.
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The draft law states that the decision was made in violation of the Constitution of the RSFSR and the USSR.
As stated in the explanatory note to the bill, it is aimed at “cleansing the legal heritage” of the Russian Federation from “insignificant acts that have no legal basis.”
Background
On January 25, 1954, at a meeting of the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee, a draft Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR was approved.
The first secretary of the Crimean regional committee of the CPSU, Pavel Titov, who opposed the transfer of the region to the RSFSR, was removed from his post and sent to Moscow to the post of Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the RSFSR.
On February 5, 1954, a meeting of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR was held, at which a resolution was adopted on the transfer of Crimea to the RSFSR. On the same day, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR decided to transfer the Crimean region to the Ukrainian SSR.
The Crimean region was part of Soviet Ukraine from 1954 to 1991. In 1991, based on the results of a referendum, the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was restored on February 12, now within the Ukrainian SSR. In the future, it was planned to join the CIS, according to the new Union Treaty. On May 5, 1992, the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea adopted the declaration “Act on the Declaration of State Independence of the Republic of Crimea.” This and other documents did not comply with the constitution of Ukraine, therefore, in March 1995, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine revoked the constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
The Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, by its resolution of May 21, 1992 “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,” recognized the resolution of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR “On the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the RSFSR” as such, which did not comply with the Constitution of the RSFSR, and therefore cannot have legal force. Regarding Sevastopol, on July 9, 1993, the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation adopted a resolution “On the status of the city of Sevastopol,” which granted the city federal status.
On December 5, 1994, the Budapest Memorandum recorded Ukraine’s renunciation of nuclear weapons. The guarantor countries, including the Russian Federation, pledged, according to the current treaty, to respect and protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine, that is, Russia officially had no territorial claims to Ukraine.
Source: Racurs
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