A bill was submitted to the State Duma to recognize the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR as illegal
The deputy of the State Duma of Russia, Konstantin Zatulin, and the member of the Federation Council, Sergey Tsekov, made a proposal to recognize the illegal transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954. The bill prepared by them is published on the website of the State Duma.
As noted by the Sota edition, such a proposal violates the current legislation, since it is possible to declare a normative legal act invalid only in a court of law.
Konstantin Zatulin has at least three times in recent years declared the need to cancel the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine. He made proposals in February 2024, April 2023 and November 2017.
In the summer of 2023, Zatulin sharply criticized the course of the war in Ukraine, stated that the goals of “special operations” were not being achieved quickly enough, and called for tougher measures, since, in his opinion, the Ukrainian state should cease to exist.
- Konstantin Zatulin – one of the most experienced Russian politicians, was a deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation. Already at that time, he adhered to nationalist and revisionist views, disputed the territorial affiliation of Crimea and Sevastopol. Due to foreign policy disagreements with the Russian leadership on the issue of Libya, in 2011 he was removed from the post of deputy chairman of the State Duma committee, he was not elected to the Duma of the sixth convocation, but since 2016 he has been sitting in the parliament again.
- Sergey Tsekov represents the annexed Crimea in the Federation Council. Earlier, he made proposals to withdraw Russian citizenship for desertion, the so-called discrediting of the army and calls for extremism, as well as to confiscate the property of Russians who went abroad after the start of the war and criticize the Kremlin’s policy.
