In the Russian court filed the first lawsuit against the annexation of the Crimea

The head of the Society for the Protection of Consumer Rights (OSPP), Mikhail Anshakov, appealed to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation demanding a legal assessment of the law “on the annexation of Crimea to Russia.” Anshakov’s like-minded people, Valery Otstavnykh and Konstantin Seleznev, also joined the lawsuit.

According to the plaintiff, when adopting a legislative act, the principle of the supremacy of international law over national law was violated, which in turn contradicts the basic law of the country.

As the authors of the initiative themselves point out, the law on annexation of the Crimea violates the part of 4 Art. 15 of the Constitution of Russia, which clearly states the supremacy of international law over Russian legislation.

“The current international Treaty between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the Russian-Ukrainian state border defines the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, including the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, as part of Ukraine,” the plaintiffs said in a statement.

Recall, about a week ago, OZPP under the direction of Anshakov published a reminder to Russian tourists traveling to Crimea about the need to coordinate their plans with the Ukrainian authorities, since in accordance with international standards the peninsula has the status of “occupied territory.”

After this, a loud scandal broke out, and the document prepared by the public organization was commented on by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, who accused the authors of the memo of “serving the interests of foreign states.”