Ukraine: Gunmen seize Crimea government buildings

[another_liberal]

33. The Crimean Parliament has voted to hold a referendum on Independence from Ukraine.

Crimea is going for broke in its opposition to the "illegal government in Kiev."

The Supreme Council of Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea has passed a no-confidence motion dismissing the regional government. The local parliament has also voted in favor of holding a referendum to decide the future of Crimea on May 25.

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The decision to dismiss Crimea’s Council of Ministers was supported by 55 out of 64 Crimean MPs. The no-confidence motion came as a result of “unsatisfactory” work by the regional government in 2013, Interfax-Ukraine reported. The Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Anatoly Mogilyov, was also dismissed. The regional parliament then voted in favor of holding an All-Crimean referendum on the status of the Autonomous Republic, with 61 out of 64 MPs supporting the poll.

On May 25, Crimeans will vote “yes” or “no” on whether the “Autonomous Republic of Crimea has state sovereignty and is a part of Ukraine, in accordance with treaties and agreements.” Earlier the presidium of the Crimean parliament have announced that they are confident "that only by holding an All-Crimean referendum on the issue of improving the status of the Autonomy and expanding its powers Crimeans will be able to determine the future of the Autonomy on their own and without any external pressure.”

As a result of “the unconstitutional seizure of power in Ukraine by radical nationalists supported by armed gangs,” Crimea’s peace and order is “under threat,” said Oksana Korniychuk, the press secretary of the head of the parliament.

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Read more at: http://rt.com/news/ukraine-crimea-parliament-government-056/