The authorities of the Republic of Crimea have no claim to the work of the organization Ukrtelecom, which provides fixed line service on the Peninsula, told reporters acting head of the region Sergey Aksenov.

Crimea and Sevastopol became the Russian regions, once in March 2014 there have been referendums in which the overwhelming number of voters were in favour of secession from Ukraine's reunification with Russia. On the Peninsula there were two branch of Ukrtelecom: one with center in Sebastopol, the second is in Simferopol. The company belongs to the Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov.

In the evening on Wednesday, the government said in Sevastopol, the state of emergency in connection with the stop branch of Ukrtelecom.

" as long as we " Ukrtelecom " claims in his work on the Republic square no. Company is working in normal mode, re-spent, " said Aksenov, adding that the Company has agreed before October 1, to provide the service even without payment from customers.

at the same time Aksenov noticed that if the Firm does not complete the whole complex of measures for re-registration in Accordance with the Russian legislation, you will have measures " coercive ".

The Crimean branch of Ukrtelecom, which serves more than 80% of the Crimean customers fixed-line telephony, in July has been re-registered in Accordance with Russian legislation. The new Firm was named " Rostelecom ".

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