Verkhovna Rada of Crimea

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Verkhovna Rada of Crimea Верховна Рада Криму Верховный Совет Крыма Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	19 June 1991; 34 years ago (1991-06-19)
Disbanded	15 March 2014; 11 years ago (2014-03-15) (de facto)
Preceded by	Crimean Regional Council
Succeeded by	State Council of Crimea
Structure
Seats	100
5 80 2 5 5 3
Political groups	Following the 2010 elections: Government (80)   Party of Regions (80) Others (20)   Communist Party of Ukraine (5)   Soyuz (5)   Russian Unity (3)   Qurultai-Rukh (5)   Strong Ukraine (2)
Elections
Last election	October 31, 2010
Meeting place
Building of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Simferopol
Website
rada.crimea.ua (Archived)
Constitution
Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Constitution of Ukraine, Chapter X, Article 136

Verkhovna Rada of Crimea or the Supreme Council of Crimea, officially the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,^[a] is the de jure legislative body for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea of Ukraine before it was forcibly de facto dissolved following annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.

The last election of parliament took place on 31 October 2010 (see 2010 Crimean parliamentary election) and was won by the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Founded in 1991, the Supreme Council of Crimea was regulated according to a legislation passed by the Ukrainian parliament on 10 February 1998.^[1] The parliament lacked the right of initiative but was authorized to fix its own election date under the Crimean constitution.^[2][3][4]

The way council members were elected was changed several times. From the 1998 elections, a majoritarian system^[which?] had been introduced that did not ensure the proper proportional representation of Crimean minorities in the council, especially that of Crimean Tatars.^{[further explanation needed][5]}

On 27 February 2014, unidentified armed men took over the parliament and hoisted the flag of Russia over it. On 15 March 2014 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially de facto dissolved the parliament.^[6] On 17 March 2014, one day before the Russian annexation of Crimea,^[7] the unrecognized State Council of Crimea was established in place of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. The Rada continues to exist de jure.

• Mikhail Kuzmenko (1954–1956)
• Ivan Filippov (1956–1959)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1959–1963)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1963–1964, industrial)
• Nikolai Moiseev (1963–1964, agrarian)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1964–1965)
• Trofim Chemodurov (1966–1979)
• Yuri Bakhtin (1979–1985)
• Alexander Roshchupkin (1985–1989)
• Vitaly Kurashik (1989–1991)

• Mykola Bahrov (1991–1994)
• Sergei Tsekov (1994–1995)
• Yevhen Suprunyuk (1995–1996)
• Vasily Kiselev (1996–1997)
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko (1997–1998)
• Leonid Hrach (1998–2002)
• Boris Deich (2002–2006)
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko (2006–2010)
• Vladimir Konstantinov (2010–2014)

• State Council of Crimea

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