Yuriy Meshkov

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Yuriy Meshkov
President of Crimea
In office
February 16, 1994 – March 17, 1995
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
3rd Prime Minister of Crimea
In office
February 4, 1994 – October 6, 1994
Preceded byBorys Samsonov
Succeeded byAnatoliy Franchuk
Personal details
Born(1945-10-25)October 25, 1945
Synelnykove, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
DiedSeptember 29, 2019(2019-09-29) (aged 73)
Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Political partyRepublican Party of Crimea
Other political
affiliations
Bloc "Russia"
Alma materMoscow State University (1977)
OccupationLawyer

Yuri Aleksandrovich Meshkov (Ukrainian: Юрій Олександрович Мєшков, Yuriy Oleksandrovych Meshkov, Russian: Юрий Александрович Мешков; October 25, 1945 – September 29, 2019)[1] was a Ukrainian politician and leader of the pro-Russian movement in Crimea.[2] He served as the only President of Crimea from 1994 to 1995.

However, eleven days after his return to Crimea in 2011, which was his first visit since 1995, Meshkov was deported from Ukraine on July 13, 2011, with a five-year restriction on his entry.[3]

Biography

Yuri Meshkov was born on October 25, 1945, in

Ukrainian SSR
.

According to an opinion column in the

Memorial" and serving as the president of the Crimean Federation of kickboxing.[citation needed
]

In 1990, Meshkov was elected as a deputy to the

Republican movement of Crimea). In 1994, Meshkov led the electoral bloc "Russia" during the republican presidential elections. In the second round of elections, he comfortably defeated Mykola Bahrov
, who ran as an independent candidate. At the time, Bahrov served as the head of the Supreme Council of Crimea.

During the second round of the 1994 Crimean presidential elections, Meshkov secured a victory with 72.9 percent of the votes and became the sole president of the republic.[8][9]

Yuri Meshkov's primary political agenda was to establish much closer ties with the

Russia he was unable to fully implement his platform nor obtain the support of Russian president Boris Yeltsin for Crimean accession to the Russian Federation.[10]

In response to his efforts, in 1995 the

Ukrainian special forces entered Meshkov's residence, disarmed his bodyguards and put him on a plane to Moscow.[13]

Living in exile in Moscow, he taught at the Moscow University.

deported Meshkov from Ukraine with the restriction of entry for 5 years on 13 July 2011.[3]

After the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, Meshkov returned to the peninsula.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Ушел из жизни первый и единственный президент Крыма Юрий Мешков". 29 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Первый президент Крыма Юрий Мешков скончался в больнице".
  3. ^
    Ukrayinska Pravda
    (13 July 2011)
  4. Vremya (MN)
    (February 1994)
  5. ^ "Meshkov Yuriy Aleksandrovich" (in Russian). AP Крым. Retrieved 2009-02-24.
  6. ^ "MESHKOV Yuriy Aleksandrovich". labyrinth.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2009-02-24.
  7. ^ "The Plot to Recapture Ukraine". Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  8. ^ "New developments in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine" (PDF). Assembly of WEU. 4 December 2001. p. 24. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
  9. New York Times
  10. ^ a b "Crimea: Yuri revels in reversal of fortune". BBC News. 23 March 2014.
  11. ^ Laws of Ukraine. Verkhovna Rada law No. 93/95-вр: On the termination of the Constitution and some laws of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Adopted on 1995-03-17. (Ukrainian)
  12. New York Times
  13. ^ ""Crimea should be Ukrainian, but without bloodshed." How Ukraine saved the peninsula 25 years ago". LB.ua (in Ukrainian). 16 July 2020.
  14. ^ (in Russian) В Симферополе погибла жена президента Республики Крым (ВИДЕО) Активистка русского движения выпала из окна In Simferopol, the president's wife died of the ARC (VIDEO) Russian activist movement fell out of the window, (28 May 2011)
  15. ^ a b (in Russian) Мешков: Русским движением в Крыму управляют предатели Meshkov: Russian movement in Crimea run by traitors, (7 July 2011)