Bill submitted to Russian legislature would void transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954

  MOSCOW:  Russian lawmakers Konstantin Zatulin and Sergey Tsekov have submitted a bill to the State Duma that seeks to invalidate the gover...

 

MOSCOW:  Russian lawmakers Konstantin Zatulin and Sergey Tsekov have submitted a bill to the State Duma that seeks to invalidate the government decision from 1954 to transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine, according to the legislature’s online database.

Article 1 of the bill would nullify the decision by declaring it to be in violation of the Constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Constitution of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the basic principles of the rule of law and international law.

In addition, the Russian Federation, as a legal successor of the USSR and the RSFSR, "as it regards the decision to transfer the Crimean region without taking into account the will of the Russian people as a political crime; works to overcome the consequences of arbitrary actions; strives for historical justice and legality, declares as null and void and having no legal effect from the moment of its adoption" the law of the USSR of April 26, 1954 and all other decisions of 1954 related to the transfer of Crimea.

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