The President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the Crimea is a part of the Russian Federation and return it to Ukraine is not subject to discussion.

so he explained the message of the Ukrainian foreign Ministry called the Return of the Crimea, Ukraine is one of the conditions for normalization of relations with Moscow.

" Crimea is a part of Russia. Return, transfer or other operations not even be discussed, " said Sands " Russian news service ".

Ukraine, USA and EU, and other countries are not aware of the Crimea to Russia according to the results of the March referendum and introduced sanctions against Russian bureaucrats, politicians and businessmen, as well as a number of organizations. In the capital of Russia these punishments called counterproductive.

in Crimea on March 16 was held the referendum on the status of autonomy, more than 96% of the participants voted for the occurrence of the region into Russia, March 18, was signed the relevant contract. The state Duma and the Federation Council approved the accession agreement Peninsula to Russia and the law on education in the Russian Federation of 2 new agents - Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol. The head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin on March 21, has signed both documents.

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