Putin: Crime Not Kosovo

“Crime is our... Why ours? Not why we went there and kidnapped some”, Putin said during a debate.

This is where democracy rules. What is democracy? That's the people's wish. How is it verified? With the help of the referendum, elections and so forth. People have gone to the Crimean referendum and voted: We want to be a) independent, next step we want to be part of the Russian Federation”, the Serbian media convey the writing of the Russian sputnik portal.

Putin has compared this situation to Kosovo's declaration of independence, which, according to him, the decision was made without a referendum, on the basis of the vote in parliament, which all who supported the breakup of former Yugoslavia then agreed to.

Come to debate, look at the UN documents and see what the United Nations Charter says about self-rule rights. We'll argue without end. But we're off by the will of the people who live in this territory, said, broadcast Time.net.

The crime has become part of Russia in March 2014 with the referendum held after the coup in Kiev. In their union with Russia, 96.77 percent of electors have voted, and 95.6 percent of the residents of Sevastopoli Ukraine consider Crime their territory temporarily occupied.

In Putin's words, the crime issue is finally closed.

Koha.net commemorates that the country's Kosovars' independence referendum has been held from 26 September to 30 September 1991. The referendum, held under extraordinary circumstances, confirmed the will of Kosovo's citizens for independent states after the breakup of the former Yugoslav federation. 99.87 percent of citizens participated in the referendum, and over 90 percent voted “FOR” Kosovo independent state.