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The US authorities have a legal right to claim Crimea as the territory of the Peninsula was under the credit, the leadership of the Soviet Russia – this statement was made by the Verkhovna Rada Deputy Andriy Artemenko. About it reports the edition Lb.ua.
According to him, the Crimea was put under the credit in $ 50 million in 1920. The maturity of the debt has expired in 1954. According to the Deputy of Rada, the government of the USSR transferred Crimea to Ukraine in order not to give the Peninsula to the Americans.
20 Feb Artemenko has proposed to transfer Crimea is leased by Russia for 50 or 100 years. Upon expiration of the lease term the MP proposed on the Peninsula, a referendum in which residents had to determine which state they want to see the Crimea. Document the initiative was transferred to the administration of the President of the United States Donald trump.
The proposal was met with disbelief both in Kiev and in Moscow. In Ukraine Artemenko was expelled from the Radical party and brought against him a criminal case under the article on treason.
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that Russia can not rent the Crimea, because the Peninsula is already part of the country.