Referendum for the autodetermination of crimea that was made the 16th March of 2014 in

Ukraine previously there was a request from the Crimean parliament with 78/81 votes to become
autonome but then part of the Russian Federation. In the referendum were allowed to vote all
adults holding Ukrainian citizenship residing in the Crimea and Russian citizens present there and
holding a residence permit in the peninsula. In the referendum, 70 international observers from 23
countries were present; of these, 54 were from countries of the European Union and included
members of the European parliament and national parliaments of individual countries. The OSCE
did not participate considering the illegal referendum in the form.
18 430 Russian soldiers were present in the Crimea. According to the International Institute of
Sociology of Kiev, in 2013 35.9% of the inhabitants of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were in
favor of the unification of the whole Ukraine with Russia; the same percentage had risen to 41% in
a survey conducted between 8 and 18 February 2014. [15] According to the survey conducted by
the Crimean Institute of Political and Social Studies between 8 and 10 March, 77% of Crimean
inhabitants would vote for the return to Russia and only 8% for the restoration of the 1992
constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as a part of Ukraine; while in the city of
Sevastopol, 85% of the population were in favor of unification with Russia. [16] The spokesperson
of the Crimean Parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, stated that, in the polls carried out on March
10, 2014, more than 80% of the Crimean population expressed their support for the return of the
peninsula to Russia.
the president of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the Swiss Didier
Burkhalter, stated that "in its current form the referendum is not consistent with the Ukrainian
Constitution and must be considered illegal", adding that there were no the conditions for an
observer mission on the occasion of the vote [40]. The OSCE observers gave up repeatedly to enter
Crimea due to the explosion of warning firearms at the Ukrainian-Crimean border in the Isthmus
of Perekop [41] Later, the Crimean government officially invited OSCE observers to send a
delegation to the autonomous republic to monitor the progress of the referendum [42]. The UN
Human Rights Envoy, Ivan Ṡimonović, was informed by the Crimean local authorities on 11 March
2014 that he could not be accepted on the peninsula because of the "complex situation on the
ground as well as the impossibility of providing security of his delegation ". [43]. On March 27,
2014, the United Nations General Assembly passed, with 100 votes in favor, 11 against and 58
abstentions, the resolution 68/262 in which the Member States were asked not to recognize the
changes in the status of Crimea.
A UN Security Council resolution presented by the United States and 41 other countries and
received 13 votes in favor (China abstained) was blocked by Russia's right of veto.
In Article. 134 of the Ukrainian Constitution and so also art. 1, co. 1 of the regional Constitution, it
is explicitly established that the Crimea is an integral part of the Ukrainian territory. Although the
constitutional regulation of the Republic is reserved for an ad hoc title, different from that
reserved for guarantees of local autonomy and Crimea can not therefore be considered in the
same way as the other twenty-four Regions (oblast), Ukraine remains a unitary state (art. 2,
paragraph 2) and Crimea can not be considered a member of a Federation