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291:. The pro-Russian parties also won the parliamentary election that year. However the president quickly alienated the parliament by asserting strong presidential powers. On 8 September, the Crimean parliament degraded the President's powers from the head of state to the head of the executive power only, to which Meshkov responded by disbanding parliament and announcing his control over Crimea four days later. There were several mostly symbolic attempts to get closer relations with Russia, with 720: 600: 508: 145: 35: 377: 430:
that divided the Black Sea Fleet that was followed by the request from the Ukrainian Republican Party to recognize the Fleet either fully Ukrainian or a fleet of a foreign country in Ukraine. Also over 300 Russian legislators called the planned Congress of Ukrainian Residents a political provocation.
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under the Russian jurisdiction and followed by the interview given by the Sevastopol's Communist, Vasyl Parkhomenko, who said that the city's Communists request to recognize the Russian as the state language and restoration of the Soviet Union. On 19 March 1993, the Crimean deputy and the member of
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was murdered. A series of terrorist actions rocked the peninsula in the winter; among them were the arson of the Mejlis apartment, the shooting of a Ukrainian official, several hooligan attacks on Meshkov, the bomb explosion in the house of a local parliamentary, the assassination attempt on a
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On 15 January 1993, Kravchuk and Yeltsin in the meeting in Moscow appointed Eduard Baltin as the commander of the Black Sea Fleet. At the same time the Union of the Ukrainian Naval Officers protested the Russian intervention into the Ukrainian internal affairs. Soon after that there were more
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Communist presidential candidate, and others. On 2 January 1994, the Mejlis announced a boycott of the presidential elections, which were later canceled. The boycott itself was later taken on by other Crimean Tatar organizations. On 11 January, the Mejlis announced their representative,
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that replaced the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR. According to the constitution, Ukraine must not house any foreign military bases on its territory. Article 17: ..."The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine".
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the National Salvation Front, Alexander Kruglov, threatened the members of the Crimean Ukrainian Congress not allow into the building of the Republican Council. A couple of days after that, Russia established an information center in
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There was stiff resistance from Ukraine and a day later, on 6 May, the same parliament inserted a new sentence into this constitution that declared that Crimea was part of Ukraine. A referendum to confirm the decision was not held
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On 2 September 1991, the National Movement of Crimean Tatars appealed to the V Extraordinary Congress of People's Deputies in Russia demanding the program how to return the deported Crimean Tatar population back to Crimea.
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in the newly independent Ukraine which maintained Crimea's autonomous status, while the Supreme Council of Crimea affirmed the peninsula's "sovereignty" as a part of Ukraine. Based on the resolution of the
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intervened in the political crisis in Crimea, scrapping the Crimean Constitution and removing Meshkov and scrapping the office of President for his actions against the state and promoting integration with
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recognized Ukraine's borders and territorial integrity, and accepted Ukraine's sovereignty over Crimea and Sevastopol. In a separate agreement, Russia was to receive 80 percent of the
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had to be shielded by umbrellas as he was pelted with eggs, while smoke bombs exploded and politicians brawled. Along with the Verkhovna Rada the treaty was ratified by the Russian
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which would have meant that Crimea would have been a sovereign subject of the renewed USSR and separate from the Ukrainian SSR. and to restore autonomy to the region as the
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scenario" was impossible in Crimea. The SBU had started criminal proceedings against the pro-Russian association "People's front Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia" in January 2009.
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with the Crimean authorities pushing for more independence from Ukraine and closer links with Russia. In 1995 the Republic was forcibly abolished by Ukraine with the
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Government Court ordered the vacating of the objects, which the Russian military did not carry out. Since August 3, 2005, the lighthouse has been controlled by the
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to the population in the Crimea and described it as a "real problem" given Russia's declared policy of military intervention abroad to protect Russian citizens.
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Wolczuk, Kataryna (8 September 2010). "Catching up with 'Europe'? Constitutional Debates on the Territorial-Administrative Model in Independent Ukraine".
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Wydra, Doris (11 November 2004). "The Crimea Conundrum: The Tug of War Between Russia and Ukraine on the Questions of Autonomy and Self-Determination".
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Wydra, Doris (11 November 2004). "The Crimea Conundrum: The Tug of War Between Russia and Ukraine on the Questions of Autonomy and Self-Determination".
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A pro-Russian demonstration of several thousand people took place in Sevastopol on 23 February 2014 in the wake of Yanukovych's flight during the
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In 1994, the legal status of Crimea as part of Ukraine was backed up by Russia, who pledged to uphold the territorial integrity of Ukraine in a
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and Russia's Black Sea Fleet were to be headquartered in Sevastopol. Ukraine extended Russia's lease of the naval facilities under the 2010
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later in 1991 in all regions of the Ukrainian SSR, including Crimea (although in Crimea the independence was supported by a slim majority).
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of Ukraine officially dissolved the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, and, on 17 March 2014, one day before the Russian annexation of Crimea, the
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established firmly under Ukrainian authority. There were also intermittent tensions with Russia over the Soviet Fleet, although a 1997
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Serhiy Kunitsyn claimed (citing recent polls) that the population of Crimea is opposed to the idea of becoming a part of
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declared Crimea a "NATO-free territory". After several days of protest, the U.S. Marines withdrew from the peninsula.
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54% of the Crimean voters supported independence with a 60% turnout (in Sevastopol 57% supported independence).
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Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements
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Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements
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However, other controversies between Ukraine and Russia still remained, including the ownership of a
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Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership on friendship and division of the Black Sea Fleet
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On 24 August 2009, anti-Ukrainian demonstrations were held in Crimea by ethnic Russian residents.
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based on the peninsula, worries of armed skirmishes were occasionally raised. In August 1991,
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Russia invaded Crimea, overthrew the elected autonomous government and claimed to annex it
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On the termination of the Constitution and some laws of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
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anti-Ukrainian protests led by the Meshkov's party, the Voters for the Crimean Republic,
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Before 2014, Crimea could be considered a part of the political base of then President
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in 1993, which the Kyiv government denounced as unconstitutional. In 1994 Crimea
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had entered his residence, disarmed his bodyguards and put him on a plane to
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called on the people of Crimea to vote for the Russian Sergei Shuvainikov.
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allowing Russia to continue basing its fleet in Sevastopol with the lease
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together with a declaration of conditional independence on the same day.
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This new situation led to tensions between Russia and Ukraine. With the
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National Identity and Ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia
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laying wreaths at a monument to the defenders of Sevastopol, April 2000
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overwhelmingly voted for Crimea to be a separate participant of the
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controlled 77 geographical objects on the south Crimean Shore, the
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The Strategic Use of Referendums: Power, Legitimacy, and Democracy
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On 14 October 1993, at the same time it established the post of
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On the 55th anniversary of the transfer of the Crimea from the
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and use of the military facilities in Sevastopol on a 20-year
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Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
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in Sevastopol or another Crimean city in connection with the
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erupted on 27 April 2010 after Ukraine's parliament ratified
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was created, which led to a wave of protests a month later.
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was established in place of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea.
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as a subject of the Union SSR and a participant of the
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recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by Russia
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University of Georgia Press. p. 285. 1001:Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2004 306:retained its special status within Ukraine. 219:Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic 215:Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic 1428: 1426: 453:Following the ratification of the May 1997 279:The Crimean parliament voted to bring in a 1799: 1797: 1079: 1077: 979: 977: 58:. Please do not remove this message until 272:. 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dissolution of the Soviet Union
Ukrainian independence
ethnic Russian
Crimean peninsula
Republic of Crimea
1991 referendum
Autonomous Republic of Crimea
treaty
Soviet Black Sea Fleet
extended
impeachment
Viktor Yanukovych
Russia invaded Crimea, overthrew the elected autonomous government and claimed to annex it

Cape of Sarych
Black Sea
Russian Navy
collapse of the Soviet Union
Crimean Oblast
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ukraine
at first
declared State Sovereignty
Soviet Union

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