The majority of residents of Crimea for the years of peaceful annexation of Ukraine's felt in a foreign land and wanted to be back in Russia, said on Thursday the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin at a meeting with a delegation of French parliamentarians who are planning to visit Crimea.
"I'm sure the citizens will tell you honestly what they felt and what lived in those 23 years, from 1991 to 2014, when due to some circumstances, the Crimea, really, was peaceful, but annexed by Ukraine, stress - peacefully. Know that the vast majority of Crimean residents all these years felt that it is placed in a foreign land, and they wanted to be back on the historical native land, in Russia, " Naryshkin said.
Crimea again became a Russian region after the March 2014 referendum in which a Large number of the population do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup in Ukraine, voted for joining the Russian Federation. In the capital of Russia notice that the referendum in Crimea complies with international law and the UN Charter.
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