1. the head of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk has admitted that he was afraid of questions about Crimea During the signing of the Belovezh agreements, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
" Fifteen years ago Kravchuk boasted to me that in Belovezhskaya Pushcha " in the midst of fun about Crimea nobody remembered. As he then was afraid of it ", - Rogozin wrote in own Twitter to explain the appeal to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko his predecessors - Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma and Viktor Yushchenko." In just 20 Years the trio destroyed the industry in Ukraine and has brought the country to civil war. Now we want to shit. Will not go!", - said Rogozin. In its own statement to Poroshenko, ex-presidents of Ukraine called on the West to impose sanctions against Russia's economy. During the Belovezhskaya agreements leaders of the RSFSR, Ukraine and Belarus signed an agreement on stopping the existence of the USSR as a " subject of international law and a geopolitical reality and the creation of the CIS. The Crimean region in 1954 was transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. Belovezhskaya agreement confirmed the territory of Ukraine within the borders of the USSR. March 16 on the Peninsula held a referendum on the status of autonomy, more than 96% of participants were in favour of joining region in Russia. on March 21, the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin signed the law on ratification of the agreement on joining of the Crimea and Sevastopol a part of Russia, as well As the decree on the formation of the Crimean Federal district.

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