Crimea received more
than 7,700 immigrants from Ukraine in 2019.
SIMFEROPOL, March 7.
/TASS/. Crimea received more than 7,700 immigrants from Ukraine in 2019, a nearly
17-percent increase compared to the previous year, the Crimean Department of
the Russian Federal Statistics Service informed TASS.
According to the
federal service, 6,622 citizens of the neighboring country moved to the
peninsula in 2018, while in 2019 this number amounted to 7,734. Ukrainians
account for almost 80% of the total number of citizens of the CIS countries who
moved to Crimea. "The number of people who arrived from the CIS countries
stands at 9,674," it said.
On the other hand,
the number of Ukrainians who have left Crimea has dropped. According to
preliminary data, there were 4,600 of them in 2018, while last year that number
stood at 3,922.
Speaker of Crimea’s
State Council Vladimir Konstantinov said at a meeting with a delegation of foreign
media representatives in November 2019 that Crimea had received about 170,000
people, including 50,000 Ukrainians, since its reunification with Russia.
The Republic of
Crimea and Sevastopol, a city with a special status on the Crimean Peninsula, where
most residents are ethnic Russians, refused to recognize the legitimacy of the
authorities in Kiev who seized power amid riots that sparked a coup in Ukraine
in February 2014.
Crimea and Sevastopol
adopted declarations of independence on March 11, 2014. They held a referendum
on March 16, 2014, in which 96.77% of Crimeans and 95.6% of Sevastopol voters
chose to secede from Ukraine and join Russia. The Russian president signed the
reunification deals on March 18, 2014. Despite the convincing results of the
referendum, Kiev refused to recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
Source: ITAR-TASS
07-03-2020
