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Food blockade of Crimea, Ukraine announced two years ago, was the catalyst that precipitated the development of the Peninsula, said the head of the Crimean government Committee on inter-ethnic relations Zaur Smirnov. “Ukrainian blockade of Crimea unwittingly became the catalyst of integration processes, which have accelerated the development of the Peninsula as a subject of the Russian Federation — in political terms, and in the socio-economic”, — quotes RIA “news” Smirnov.
According to the head of the state Committee of Crimea for two years have shifted to Russian markets, strengthening economic independence from Ukraine.
“The inhabitants of the Republic, despite a series of closures — water, food, transport, energy and tourism — has not abandoned the gains of 2014, and the position of Russians in Crimea remained unchanged,” — said Smirnov.
Recall that in 2016 the government of the Crimea, and thanked Kiev for the fact that due to the food blockade of the Peninsula from Ukraine, had greatly stimulated the development of agriculture of the Republic.
Earlier it was reported that all three of the organiser of the food and energy “blockade” of the Crimean Peninsula wanted, with Mustafa Dzhemilev and Refat Chubarov — in the international and Lenur islyamov, to the Federal. All three initiated food “blockade” of the Crimea and openly called for the termination of its power supply.