The Federation Council reacted to Kiev's plans to impose sanctions against those involved in organizing elections in Crimea

As Kovitidi emphasized, no decisions of foreign states can change the provisions of the country's main law for Russians.

“It is necessary to remind our Ukrainian neighbors that citizens of the Russian Federation, regardless of gender, nationality, origin, property and official status, place of residence, attitude to religion, and other circumstances, have the right to elect and be elected.

The elections will take place in any political weather, ”the senator explained.

Earlier, the secretary of the SBNO Aleksey Danilov, during a briefing, announced the sanctions against those involved in organizing the elections in Crimea.

He noted that in the near future, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a corresponding decree.

Crimea became a Russian region following a March 2014 referendum in which most of the peninsula's residents voted for reunification with Russia.