Putin submits Treaty on Crimea’s accession, new constitutional amendment to State Duma

Itar-Tass ^ | 03/19/2014 | Itar-Tass

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MOSCOW, March 19. /ITAR-TASS/. President Vladimir Putin has submitted to the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, a treaty of Crimea’s reunification with Russia and a constitutional amendment on setting up two new constituent territories of the Russian Federation, officials at the parliamentary department for public relations said.

Earlier, President Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstnatinov and Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov, Sevastopol Mayor Alexei Chaly signed a treaty which stipulates that the Republic of Crimea has been acknowledged as reunified with the Russian Federation.

Since the date of Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation the new subjects - the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, which has a federal status, have been created in the Russian Federation. Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean languages have been recognized as official languages spoken in the Republic of Crimea.

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The treaty signed yesterday and a corresponding draft federal constitutional law to amend Article 65 of Russia's Constitution to list the new federal subjects there were submitted by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly - the State Duma today, for its prompt consideration. That is expected to be acted on tomorrow; the upper house, the Federation Council - is expected to follow suit on Friday, March 21.