Crimea is entitled to apply to Ukraine the counterclaim about collecting of the missed benefit and to demand compensation for moral damage, said Last news Vice-speaker of the Crimean Parliament Andrey Kozenko.

first of Ukraine has filed lawsuits against Russia in European court of human rights (ECtHR) with the requirement to recover damages for the annexation of Crimea. Kiev wants to sue Russia in every case of loss of property in Crimea. The sum of the losses specified in the first claim amounts to more than 1 trillion UAH.

"The Ukrainian authorities should take note that the Crimeans have the opportunity to counter-sue, in the 1st turn, loss of profits, because all 23 years of being from the Ukraine, the Crimea did not develop the land and the property was divided as he could, nothing in the Crimea did not invest. The fact that the Crimea was from Ukraine all these years, there was no result, " said Kozenko.

in addition, according to his statement, in a counter lawsuit, Crimeans also have a right to demand from the authorities of Ukraine of compensation of moral damage, because all the years of being under the Ukrainian jurisdiction in the Republic to escalate the political situation, was an infringement on national and linguistic grounds." for all this too sometime to respond, " - said Vice-speaker.

Kozenko believes that If Crimea from the beginning was from Russia, but today the Peninsula is considered one of the advanced and developing areas, and so the Republic lost a huge prospects from the perspective of development.

The Deputy speaker said that Ukraine presented by the material of the complaints to seem like the quest more profitable to sell the Crimea and cash." If our opponents want to sue, please, I think prospects there are no no. Once again amuse the whole world and all the European community. Better let it go with an outstretched hand, but none of the Russian Federation to blackmail will not " - said Vice-speaker.

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