Sergei Valeryevich Aksyonov
Sergei Valerjewitsch Aksjonow ( Russian Сергей Валерьевич Аксёнов , Ukrainian Сергій Аксьонов / Serhij Aksjonow ; born November 26, 1972 in Belzy , Moldavian SSR ) is a Ukrainian and Russian politician . Until 2014 he headed the Ukrainian small party Russian Unity , which was founded in 2010, and has been a member of the Russian party United Russia since 2014 .
On February 27, 2014, while gunmen were occupying the Crimean parliament, deputies allegedly present there installed him as the new Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and has been President of the Republic of Crimea since its establishment .
Political career
Sergei Aksjonow was born in what is now the Moldovan city of Bălți . His father was an officer in the Soviet Army . After nationalist and anti-Russian tendencies had spread in Moldova since the mid-1980s, Aksyonov moved to Simferopol in the Crimea in 1989 . There the then 17-year-old enrolled at a military academy and planned to pursue a military career like his father. After the Soviet Union dissolved, Aksjonow became a Ukrainian citizen and worked from then on as an entrepreneur. He refused to serve in the Ukrainian armed forces .
From 1993 to 2008 he worked in various companies in the Crimea. The family man then became active in Ukrainian politics as a member of pro-Russian parties from 2008. 2009 put Mikhail Bacharjow, deputy chairman of the Russian Crimean society, police files from the 1990s before, is to emerge showing that Aksyonov then called Goblin of mafia association Salem have listened. Aksyonov's complaint against Bacharev was dismissed. He sees the allegations as part of a campaign against him.
Sergei Aksyonov has been a member of the Russian Unity Party (Русское Единство) in the Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea since 2010 . In the parliamentary elections in 2012 , he received 9% of the vote in his district.
On February 26, 2014, around 10,000 Crimean Tatars demonstrating prevented the parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from holding a special session. A referendum on the whereabouts or detachment of Crimea from Ukraine should be voted on at this extraordinary plenary session . The referendum was scheduled for May 25, 2014, the day of the early presidential elections in Ukraine. However, there were too few MPs in the plenary for a valid vote after several opposition politicians had not registered as present.
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On February 27, the parliament building in the capital Simferopol was occupied by a 30-man pro-Russian militia without a badge. Because of the occupation, Thursday was declared a day off by the Council of Ministers and the employees were sent home again. As a result, the plenary session on the referendum, which had been prevented the day before, took place. According to information on the Parliament's website and its press office, the decision for the referendum on May 25, 2014 on the future status of Crimea was adopted with 61 votes out of 64. At this meeting, the regional government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea under Prime Minister Anatoly Mohilev was declared deposed, with 55 of the 64 members of the 100-member parliament present voting for the deposition of the previous government of the Party of Regions. Mohilev had only been appointed Prime Minister of Crimea by then President Viktor Yanukovych in 2011 . MEPs elected Sergei Aksyonov, chairman of the Russian Unity Party, to succeed Mohilev as chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers . According to the Parliamentary Secretariat, he received a slim majority of 53 votes in the vote.
The votes were not open to the public; only MPs invited by Aksyonov were allowed to vote. They were searched and had to hand over their cell phones. There were armed men with rocket launchers in the room during the meeting. According to research by the Aftenposten, there were only 36 MPs present, too few entitled to vote to meet the quorum of 51 members for the quorum. Votes were counted from members of parliament who were absent. This affects at least 10 of the votes cast, for which duplicates of voting cards stolen from Parliament's safe were used. Some MPs whose votes were recorded were not even in Simferopol.
The appointment of Aksyonov as Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea was classified as unlawful by the interim government in Kiev, whereas, according to the Autonomous Government in Simferopol, the Chairman of the Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) of the Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov agreed by telephone with the previous Ukrainian President Yanukovych, that Sergei Aksyonov will be appointed as the new chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers. According to Article 37 of the Constitution of Ukraine, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers is appointed by the Speaker of the Parliament of Crimea (that is, the Chairman of the Supreme Council), this appointment being made in agreement with the Ukrainian President. The appointment is then approved by the Parliament of the Crimean Autonomous Republic.
In the meantime, the Crimean Council of Ministers has brought the date for the referendum forward to March 30 and a little later to March 16. On March 2, 2014, Aksyonov issued a statement claiming that large parts of the Ukrainian troops stationed in Crimea had submitted to the new government of Crimea.
On March 10, he announced that in addition to Ukrainian, Russian and Crimean Tatar would be the official languages of Crimea.
In March 2014, the US government and the European Union put Aksyonov on their sanction lists as a result of the Ukraine crisis , which banned Aksyonov from entering the United States and the member states of the European Union .
Web links
- Short biography on the website of the Krymskoje informazionnoje agenstvo (Russian)
- Entry ( memento of April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on Partinform (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://itar-tass.com/politika/1302194
- ↑ a b Ukraine-Russia conflict: Sergei Aksjonow - Putin's man in the Crimea. In: Focus . March 2, 2014, accessed March 2, 2014 .
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10700668/The-Crimea-leader-who-could-take-breakaway-Ukraine-state-to-Russia.html
- ↑ http://time.com/19097/putin-crimea-russia-ukraine-aksyonov/
- ↑ Mitch Potter: Meet "Goblin" - Moscow's man in Crimea . In: Toronto Star . 4th March 2014
- ↑ Ann-Dorit Boy: New "head of government" of the Crimea From the demimondial to power . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 4th March 2014
- ^ Special session of the Crimean Parliament canceled . In: RIA Novosti . February 26, 2014
- ↑ a b Christian Esch: Parliament in the Crimea hostage . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 27, 2014, accessed March 2, 2014
- ↑ a b Referendum: Ukraine is threatened with secession of Crimea . In: Spiegel Online . February 27, 2014, accessed March 2, 2014
- ↑ Ukraine: Crimea should decide on autonomy . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 27, 2014, accessed March 3, 2014
- ↑ Crimea's Russians welcome Moscow's troops as protectors . In: The Irish Times . March 3, 2014
- ↑ a b c Alissa de Carbonnel: RPT-INSIGHT-How the separatists delivered Crimea to Moscow , Reuters of March 13, 2013, accessed on April 4, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Crimea: Parliament and government buildings occupied by "self-defense forces" . In: RIA Novosti. February 27, 2014
- ^ Crimean Parliament Dismisses Cabinet and Sets Date for Autonomy Referendum . In: The Moscow Times . February 28, 2014, accessed March 3, 2014.
- ↑ a b Crimean parliament to decide on appointment of autonomous republic's premier on Tuesday . At: interfax .com.ua November 7, 2011, accessed March 7, 2014
- ↑ Депутаты захваченной Верховной Рады Крыма избрали своим премьером лидера «Русского единсетвен Свя . In: http://investigator.org.ua/ February 27, 2014, accessed April 4, 2014 (Russian).
- ↑ Christian Rothenberg: The Curious Rise of Aksjonov - Putin's henchman in the Crimea , n-tv from March 6, 2014, accessed on April 4, 2014.
- ↑ a b Simon Shuster: Putin's Man in Crimea Is Ukraine's Worst Nightmare , Time Magazine, March 10, 2014, accessed April 4, 2014.
- ↑ a b Per Kristian Aale: Voting fraud secured pro-Russian majority in Crimean parliament , Aftenposten from March 9, 2013, accessed on April 4, 2013 (English).
- ↑ Turchynov Acknowledges Aksenov's Appointment As Crimean Prime Minister Unlawful ( Memento of the original March 1, 2014 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Ukrainian News. March 1, 2014 accessed on March 2, 2014
- ↑ В.Константинов по телефону согласовал с В.Януковичем главу правительства АРК - С.Куницин , accessed on February 7, 2014.ua from unn.com.ua on March 7, 2014
- ↑ Ukrainian military on the side of the Crimean authorities - unofficial . In: RIA Novosti. March 2, 2014
- ↑ vesti.ru: Аксенов предложил крымским татарам места в правительстве
- ↑ zeit.de: EU-Russia Sanctions: List, Aksjonow
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Aksjonow, Sergei Valeryevich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Аксёнов, Сергей Валерьевич (Russian); Аксьонов, Сергій (Ukrainian); Aksjonov, Serhiy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bălți |