"State Council Day" to be celebrated in Crimea

"On this day in 2014, the first meeting of the first session of the State council of the Republic of Crimea of the first convocation. The Parliament of the Republic is a historic place. On these days 11 years ago [in February 2014], Crimeans who did not the coup d'état in Kyiv*, the future of our peninsula," said Vladimir Konstantinov, "the head of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea"

Help. On the night of February 21, 2014, the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea received a notice of the need to convene an extraordinary session at 12:00 to to discuss the socio-political situation in Ukraine. On the same day, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov returned from Moscow and openly stated that Crimea "may go to Russia". Activists of the "EuroMaidan-Crimea" movement gathered near the building of the AR of Crimea for a peaceful rally activists of the Euromaidan-Crimea movement gathered for a peaceful rally near the building of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; supporters of the law enforcement officers intervened in the conflict. On the same day, large-scale separatist separatist riots, inspired by the Russian Federation with the support of its armed forces and and local collaborators

On February 26, 2014, a pro-Russian rally was held near the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the participants of which demanded the separation of Crimea demanded the separation of Crimea from Ukraine by holding a referendum; vladimir Konstantinov addressed them and announced the following day an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. on February 26, pro-Russian protesters clashed in front of the building of the regional parliament pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian activists clashed in front of the building of the regional parliament in in connection with the possible intentions of the Crimean parliament to consider the issue of the region's secession from Ukraine; after a massive clash, the session of the Verkhovna Rada of the AR of Crimea was was canceled, and the pro-Ukrainian side dispersed to form a self-defense unit. The next day, February 27, 2014, armed Russian special forces armed Russian special forces seized the buildings of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Simferopol

February 26, 2020 was established by the decree of the President of Ukraine as an annual memorial day as an annual memorial date - the Day of Resistance to the Occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

*This is the definition the Russian authorities and their accomplices in the occupied territories Ukraine give to the events of the Revolution of Dignity.