Any call to return to the Crimea, Ukraine, and among them the British Foreign office, are considered as an encroachment on the territorial integrity of Russia, said 1st Deputy head of the faction "United Russia" in the state Duma Frants Klintsevich.

before the British foreign Secretary Philip Hammond tried to persuade the Russian Federation to return to the Crimea, Ukraine.

"Our response will be as consistent and clear. From March 2014, the Crimea is Russian territory. In this sense there is no difference between itself and, for example, the Kamchatka Peninsula. For this reason, Any call to return to the Crimea we see it as an attack on the territorial integrity of Russia, " Klintsevich said correspondents.


Sevastopol and the Crimea became the Russian regions after the referendum in which an overwhelming number of voters (96, 77%) with a turnout of 83, 1%. The corresponding agreement was signed on 18 March, then it was approved by the State Duma and the Federation Council. They Also adopted the Federal constitutional law on education of 2 new regions of the Russian Federation - Republic of Crimea and cities of Federal significance Sevastopol. The head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin both documents. Also before Putin said that the referendum in Crimea corresponds to the norms of international law and the UN Charter. Ukraine considers the Crimea her, but at the time occupied territory.

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