MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft bill to the State Duma that would rewrite a chapter of history by nullifying the Soviet decision in 1954 to transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine.

The move appears aimed at establishing a legal basis for Russia to argue that Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which it claims to have annexed from Ukraine in 2014, was never really part of Ukraine to begin with.

The draft, submitted by a lawmaker from each of Russia’s two houses of parliament, describes the 1954 handover as arbitrary and illegal because no referendum was held and Soviet authorities had no right to transfer territory from one constituent republic to another without consent.

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    So they’re admitting that without this nullification, Chrimea is part of Ukraine and Russia has no claim to it?

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        8 months ago

        Shoot first, make a law retroactively making shooting legal later.

        Drop dissenter from a window

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      8 months ago

      So they’re admitting that without this nullification, Chrimea is part of Ukraine and Russia has no claim to it?

      Its a bunch of formalizing of what has already been achieved militarily. Hardly the first time a military occupation has shifted a national border. That’s the story of 90% of the United States and 70% of the UK.

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      8 months ago

      No, no, no, no, no.

      Not no claim. Just… No legal claim.