In the state Duma want to acknowledge the victims of the repression of Ukraine Champions of the status of Crimea
A group of deputies from all factions, and among them the leader of the CPRF Gennady Zyuganov, has submitted to the state Duma a draft law extending the law On rehabilitation of victims of political repression on citizens of Crimea and Sevastopol, which had been subjected to repressions from the authorities of Ukraine, because he advocated the reunification of the Peninsula with Russia.
Crimea has returned to Russia after the March 2014 referendum.
"The purpose of this law is the rehabilitation of all victims of political repression exposed to such within the Russian Federation in its present borders since 25 October (7 November) 1917, the restoration of their civil rights, elimination of other consequences of arbitrariness and ensuring feasible now compensation of material damage," - said in the document.
the MPs believe that " historical debt of the Russian Federation is the rehabilitation of those who for many years sought the restoration of historical justice and fought for the reunification of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia."
The authors of the bill remind you that in 1991 the Russian Federation legislation On the rehabilitation of victims of political repressions " admitted that during the Soviet period, millions of people became victims of the tyranny of a totalitarian country, were persecuted for their political and religious beliefs, social, national and other characteristics.
"Under reprisal should understand violent punitive measure, used by public authorities to individual citizens or groups of Residents. Such measures of "political struggle" dissent is actively practiced and after the destruction of the USSR, sovereign Ukraine in the Republic of Crimea and the Federal city of Sevastopol in the period from 24 August 1991 to 18 March 2014 ", - is written in the explanatory note.
the MPs claim that the second year the residents of new regions of the Russian Federation defended his position about the fact that " Russia has rehabilitated its citizens convicted by the Ukrainian authorities for the political struggle for the Russian status of Crimea."