The decision of the Ukrainian Rada to rename Russian airport "Simferopol" and assign it the name of the national hero of the Crimean Tatar people Amet-Khan Sultan is speculative, says a member of the Department of the state Duma on CIS Affairs, Eurasian integration and relations with compatriots Vasily Likhachev.

The Parliament of Ukraine at a meeting on Thursday renamed Russian airport " Simferopol ", giving it the name of the national hero of the Crimean Tatar people Amet-Khan Sultan. In the USSR it was known as a military pilot during the great Patriotic war, honored test pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

"This is really a highly respected man of military biography, but authorized the use of the Crimean Tatar people is, in this case, just speculative," said Likhachev Fins news .

according to his vision, will appear more and more such reasons, as if to allow, with the position of official Kyiv to show that different kinds of objects, and the region of Crimea is generally placed under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian nation."

"Such policy of double standards, Policies close eye on current events, Politics conscious rejection of objective democratic processes, as well as among them in the borders of the Crimea, It is the Policy of nowhere. She decides not to Kiev, the issue of improving relations with Moscow, the Russian Federation, and only drives this vector issues in the distant corner of time, " - said Likhachev.

in March 2014, Sevastopol and the Crimea, whose capital is the city of Simferopol and where is its airport, became the Russian regions after the referendum in which an overwhelming number of residents were in favour of joining the Russian Federation. Kiev, the annexation of the Crimea into structure of Russia does not recognize.

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