The Verkhovna Rada calls not to recognize the elections to the State Duma in occupied Crimea

On Thursday September, 8, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the resolution appealing to the foreign states’ parliaments, the parliamentary assemblies and the international organizations to refrain from any participation in monitoring the illegal elections into the parliament in occupied by Russia Crimea and not to recognize the results no matter what.

269 deputies out of 345 registered ones at the session voted for the resolution # 5075

The elections to the State Duma in the Russian Federation will be held in September, 18.

The newsblog “15 minutes” informed, the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov announced that the Crimean Tatar’s majority won’t vote for the State Duma in the Russian Federation planned in September, 18. He stressed out the illegitimacy issue of the State Duma should be raised at the international level.

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