[HIGHLIGHTS] In Crimea, they announced the need to cancel the act of transferring the peninsula to the Ukrainian SSR

Crimean parliament's committee on public diplomacy and interethnic relations, Yuri Hempel, said the issue of canceling the 1954 decision on the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR was long overdue. Earlier, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Konstantin Zatulin, made a proposal to cancel the decision.

Crimea became a Russian region after a referendum held there in March 2014, in which the majority of residents of the peninsula supported reunification with Russia.