Tråden om Krimhalvön

The Crimean parliament and Sevastopol's city council have voted in favor of joining Russia. The decision will only come in force if it is approved by the Crimeans at a referendum which will be held in 10 days.

Crimean MPs voted on Thursday for the region to “to become part of the Russian Federation as its constituent territory,” says the text of the regional parliament’s statement.

78 MPs said yes to Crimea joining Russia, while 8 abstained from voting.

When the decision was announced to several thousand people waiting outside the parliament building, they, according to Itar-Tass, welcomed the news with cheers and screams of “Russia!”

The parliament has also made a decision to ask the Russian leadership to “launch the procedure of Crimea becoming part of Russia.”

Sevastopol’s city council also voted to become a subject of the Russian Federation and backed Crimea’s referendum. The city’s residents will take part in the March 16 referendum despite the city enjoying a special status and not officially being part of Crimea.

The speaker of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, explained that the parliament’s decision on the region joining Russia still has to be approved at a referendum, which has been scheduled for March 16. That’s two weeks earlier than announced last week.

"We are not in a rush, but that’s what the current situation demands,” Konstantinov told Itar-Tass. ‘We are trying to address the sentiments currently shared by the population. Those are uncertainty and fear. We must give them confidence and offer a clear political way out of the crisis.”

There will be two questions on the Crimean referendum ballots.

“The first one: Are you in favor of Crimea becoming a constituent territory of the Russian Federation. The second one: Are you in favor of restoring Crimea’s 1992 constitution,” the autonomous region’s First Deputy-Premier Rustam Temirgaliev said.

According to the 1992 constitution, the autonomous republic is part of Ukraine but has relations with Kiev, defined on the basis of mutual agreements.

The variant which gets the simple majority will be the winner in the referendum.

Jag tycker att det är skönt med att Krim blir rysk.

Det blir för första gången i en evighet man kan resa till ett solig ställe i Europa på semester där man sliper en massa javla turkoider och negroider. Helt fantastisk.

Around 95 percent of voters in the Crimean referendum have answered ‘yes’ to the autonomous republic joining Russia and less than 5 percent of the vote participants want the region to remain part of Ukraine, according to preliminary results.

With around 50 percent of the votes already counted, preliminary result show that 95.5 percent of voters said 'yes' to the reunion of the republic with Russia as a constituent unit of the Russian Federation. In Sevastopol, the number of those who voted ‘yes’ stands at 93 percent, according to the head of the Sevastopol commission, Valery Medvedev.

The preliminary results of the popular vote were announced during a meeting in the center of Sevastopol, the city that hosts Russia's Black Sea fleet.

The overall voter turnout in the referendum on the status of Crimea is 81,37%, according to the head of the Crimean parliament’s commission on the referendum, Mikhail Malyshev.

Over a half of the Tatars living in the port city took part in the referendum, with the majority of them voting in favor of joining Russia, reports Itar-Tass citing a representative of the Tatar community Lenur Usmanov.

About 40% of Crimean Tatars went to polling stations on Sunday, the republic’s prime minister Sergey Aksyonov said.

In Simferopol, the capital of the republic, at least 15,000 have gathered to celebrate the referendum in central Lenin square and people reportedly keep arriving. Demonstrators, waving Russian and Crimean flags, were watching a live concert while waiting for the announcement of preliminary results of the voting.

Over 5,000 people have gathered for a rally in Odessa to support the referendum in Crimea.

“Odessa residents back Crimeans who vote for their future. We’ve establish tents where we collect signatures to demand referendums be held to decentralise power in Ukraine, elect governors and give Russian the status of a second state language. Such rallies are being held in other south-eastern cities,” head of the coordinating council of public organisations, “People’s Alternative”, Anton Davidchenko told ralliers.

Med cirka 50% av rösterna räknade så visar det sig att cirka 95% av krimborna vill införliva Krimhalvön med Ryssland. Ungefär 40% av de röstberättigade tatarerna på Krim röstade.

http://rt.com/news/crimea-vote-join-russia-210/

Sanna krimtatarer skulle driva ut både muskoviter och kossacker från Ukraina.

Jag tänkte att det vore på sin plats med en separat tråd för diskussioner kring Krimhalvön och dess öden.

Ett val angående huruvida Krim skall införlivas med Ryssland eller fortsätta att förbli en autonom delrepublik men fortfarande tillhöra Ukraina kommer att hållas den 16:e mars:

http://rt.com/news/crimea-referendum-status-ukraine-154/


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Krimtatarerna då?

Tatarerna kan ju alltid åka hem till Turkiet liksom svenska turkar. Det är fritt fram att åka hem.

Tatarerna kan ju alltid åka hem till Turkiet liksom svenska turkar. Det är fritt fram att åka hem.