Sergey Aksyonov
Sergei Aksenov Valeryevich (Russian: Сергей Валерьевич Аксёнов, Ukrainian Сергій Аксьонов / Serhiy Aksenov; * November 26, 1972 in Balti ) is a Ukrainian politician (Russian unit ).
On February 27, 2014, he was appointed by the Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as the new Prime Minister, and has been the foundation of the President of the Republic of Crimea.
Political career
Aksenov was from 1993 to 2008 in various companies active in the Crimea. The father was then an active member of the Russian community in Ukrainian politics from 2008. 2009 presented Mikhail Bacharjow, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Crimean society, police records from the 1990s, will emerge from those that Aksenov had then consulted under the name Goblin mafia association Salem. A defamation lawsuit by Aksenov against Bacharjow was dismissed.
Since 2010, Sergei Aksenov sits as a deputy of the Russian party unit ( Русское Единство ) in the Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
On February 26, 2014 some 10,000 demonstrators Crimean Tatars had prevented the Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea convened for a special session. It should be voted on this extraordinary plenary session about a referendum on fate, or detachment of the Crimea from Ukraine. The referendum was scheduled for 25 May 2014 the day of the early presidential elections in Ukraine. For a valid vote but too few deputies were in plenary after several opposition politicians had not registered as present.
On 27 February, the Parliament building in the capital Simferopol was occupied by one of 30 people existing, pro-Russian militia without identification badges. Due to the occupation of this Thursday was declared by the Council to a non-working day and the staff were sent home. In the following then took place the day before prevented plenary meeting on the referendum. According to the website of the Parliament and its press office, the decision for the referendum on 25 May 2014, the future status of the Crimea was adopted with 61 of 64 votes. Likewise, the Regional Government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was declared under the Prime Minister Anatoly Mohiljow deposed in this session, would have voted with 55 of the 64 deputies present of the hundred -member Parliament for the removal of the previous, actually also pro-Russian government. Mohiljow was appointed by then President Viktor Yanukovych as Prime Minister of Crimea until 2011. To succeed Mohiljow as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea chose the deputies Sergei Aksenov, the chairman of the Russian party unity. According to the Parliament Secretariat, he received a slight majority of 53 votes in the voting.
The votes were not public, admission received only MPs who were invited by Aksenov. They were searched and had to hand in their mobile phones. During the meeting, were armed with rocket launchers in the hall. According to research by the Aftenposten were only 36 MPs to vote a few signatories present to meet the quorum of 51 members for a quorum. It votes of MPs were counted, who were not present. This concerns at least 10 of the votes cast, were used for the stolen from the safe of Parliament duplicate voting cards. Some MPs whose votes were registered, were not even in Simferopol.
The appointment Aksjonows as Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has been classified by the transitional government in Kiev to be unlawful, whereas, according to the autonomous government in Simferopol, the Chairman of the Supreme Council ( Verkhovna Rada ) of the Crimea Volodymyr Konstantynow with the former Ukrainian President Yanukovych said to have agreed by telephone, that Sergei Aksenov be appointed as the new Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea. According to Article 37 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers by the Speaker of the Parliament of Crimea (that is the chairman of the Supreme Council ) appointed, which appointment is made in accordance with the Ukrainian president. Subsequently, the appointment is approved by the Parliament of the Autonomous Crimean Republic.
The date for the referendum was first brought forward to March 16, the Council of Ministers of Crimea in the meantime on the 30th and a short time later.
On March 2, Aksenov published a statement in which he claimed that large parts of the stationed in the Crimea Ukrainian troops had placed themselves under the new government of the Crimea, and thanked them for, as he put it, patriotic behavior.