A rally-concert “10 years in the native port” is held on Red Square, dedicated to the anniversary of the reunification of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol with the Russian Federation. Law, order and security are ensured by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in cooperation with their colleagues in other law enforcement agencies, reported The official representative of the department is Irina Volk.
“More than 80 thousand Muscovites and guests of the capital attend the event,” he wrote.
At the end of February 2014, pro-Russian residents of Crimea, who did not want to recognize the new Ukrainian government, began their own open-ended protest before the autonomy legislature, demanding the separation of Crimea from Ukraine.
The Crimean parliament appealed to the Russian President with a request to accept the republic into the Russian Federation and set the referendum date as March 16. In the referendum held with over 80 percent participation, the overwhelming majority of voters supported the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
Evgeniy Balitsky, formerly president of the Zaporozhye region statedConstruction of a railway connecting Rostov-on-Don and Crimea has begun.