“We are taking two paths: on the one hand, we are appealing to the Constitutional Court on this issue, and, on the other hand, we have decided to present a bill.
Russia is the legal successor of the Soviet Union, and since it is the legal successor, it, as you know, denounces the treaties that were concluded by the Soviet Union.
For example, they denounced the agreement with Britain on fisheries.
Russia has the right to cancel the completely illegal decision of 1954, when, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Crimea was transferred to Ukraine.
There were a lot of violations... The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR did not have such rights,” the RT interlocutor emphasized.
He added that this decision “will not change our future and present - we are already part of Russia.”
“But this gives us the opportunity to talk with normal countries that respect the Russian Federation, to explain in general what actually happened to Crimea in 1954.
I believe that the illegal decisions of that period are cancelled, can be cancelled, should be cancelled,” the parliamentarian concluded.
Earlier, a draft law was submitted to the State Duma to invalidate the decision to transfer Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.