It will not enter in any way

Presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak will not conduct election campaigning during a trip to the annexed Crimea. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the candidate Ksenia Chudinov.

“They wanted to meet with the Crimean Tatars and the inhabitants of Crimea to understand their problems, to hear them,” Chudinova said. According to the press secretary, the dates of the trip have not yet been determined, but Sobchak expects to visit the peninsula until the election on March 18.

On Thursday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin commented on the appeal of Sobchak to the Ukrainian embassy for permission to visit Crimea to conduct his campaign. “To adhere to Ukrainian legislation for entry into the occupied Crimea is, of course, positive. But the legal entry for conducting an illegitimate campaign of illegitimate elections in the occupied territory is definitely schizophrenia. Of course, political,” Klimkin wrote on Twitter.

Between the State Duma deputy from the Crimea, Natalya Poklonskaya said that she would turn to the CEC in connection with the appeal of Sobchak to the Ukrainian authorities. “Asking the permission of the Kyiv authorities to enter the territory of one of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, Ksenia Sobchak publicly demonstrates that he does not consider this region part of the country, the president and the supreme commander of which it plans to become. From here the question arises: how can you be the head of state, without recognizing its territorial integrity?” Poklonskaya noted. In her opinion, Sobchak’s actions may contain signs of crime under Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code (public calls for separatism).

Another deputy from Crimea Andrei Kozenko noted that in April 2014 Sobchak visited Crimea without any permission. “So, in April 2014, Ksenia Sobchak did not need a Ukrainian permission to visit Crimea. But now it took it. Kiev may be offended by this,” the deputy wrote . He believes that Sobchak "does not need the result of the elections, the votes of voters are not needed, she is only interested in shocking media recovers."

On Tuesday, Sobchak, in an interview with Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, spoke about her appeal to the Embassy of Ukraine . “If I go to the Crimea, then only from the territory of the (continental) Ukraine,” the candidate said. “I think that it will be so right.”

According to Sobchak, this is necessary, since she intends to meet on the peninsula with "different people", including with Crimean Tatars, who did not recognize the annexation. Venediktov replied that the region has many other residents who "wanted to join Russia." "What do you tell them - go back to Ukraine?" - asked the editor -in -chief "Echo".

“No, I never told them and I will not tell them,” Sobchak assured. “Although many expect me to return the Crimea to Ukraine. But I will never say that because I understand that there are people - and this is also true - who want to be in the Crimea that is part of Russia.” Crimeans "have already made part of Russia," concluded a candidate. However, she added, to legalize the annexation, a second “international” vote is necessary.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Ministry for Temporarily occupied territories called on residents of Crimea not to participate in the Russian presidential election, since they are held illegally. The chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov also made the same call. In turn, Klimkin promised to ensure that the organizers of the elections on the peninsula were included in the sanctions lists.

The Bureau of Democratic Institutes and Human Rights OSCE and the monitoring mission of the European Union refused to send observers to the Crimea elections.

In August 2016, Alexei Korolev, Alexander Safronov and Marina Kapitsa - candidates from Parnas in the State Duma elections from the regional group No. 33, uniting Kuban, Adygea, as well as the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol, submitted to the Ukrainian General -Consults in Rostov -Don a statement to open transit visas for pre -election campaigning on annexed peninsula. At the same time, the leader of the Kuban branch of the party, Leonid Porudin, sent to Genconsul Vitaly Moskalenko an appeal in which he emphasized that the party functionaries intend to arrive in Crimea only with the consent of Ukraine. In the absence of such consent, Zaprudin assured, "the above candidates will refrain from organizing an election campaign in Crimea."

The director of the political department of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Alexei Makeev, in response to the request of Russian candidates, remarked: "Based on the fact that this is the occupied territory, it is natural that Ukraine cannot give any permission to carry out agitation on the territory of the occupied Crimea."

After that, Korolev, Safronov and Kapitsa refused to conduct agitation on the peninsula .

The results of the State Duma in the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol did not recognize the results of the elections.