page_title: Sergey Aksyonov
section_title: Head of Crimea
hierarchical_section_title: Sergey Aksyonov / Biography / Political career / Head of Crimea
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Глава Республики Крым Сергей Аксёнов выехал в город Армянск, где пообщался с местными жителями по поводу ситуации с ликвидацией последствий выбросов в городе.
context_page_description: Sergey Valeryevich Aksyonov is the Head of the Republic of Crimea from 9 October 2014 which is an internationally disputed federal subject of Russia located on the Crimean Peninsula. Member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the party United Russia.
context_section_description: Following the Ukrainian revolution, on 27 February an emergency session was held in the Crimean legislature while it was occupied by members of Crimea's self-defense forces. After sealing the doors and confiscating all mobile phones, the MPs who had been invited by Aksyonov to enter the building, passed the motion in the presence of the gunmen armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket launchers. The result was that 55 of 64 votes elected Aksyonov Prime Minister. Various media accounts have disputed whether he was able to gather a quorum of 50 of his peers before the session convened that day, and some Crimean legislators who were registered as present have said they did not come near the building. Others denied being in the city, and claimed that duplicate voting cards stolen from the Parliament's safe were used in their name. Opposition deputies have avoided speaking out publicly out of fear of reprisal, due to threats received. Crimean Prime Minister Anatolii Mohyliov was barred from attending the session.
  Under the Ukrainian constitution, the Prime Minister of Crimea is appointed by the autonomous republic's parliament following consultations with the President of Ukraine. The Director of the Information Analysis department of the legislature's secretariat, Olha Sulnikova, has stated that an agreement exists with ousted president Viktor Yanukovych. The interim President of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov decreed the appointment of Aksyonov as the head of the government of Crimea to be unconstitutional.
  On 5 March 2014, the Shevchenko district court of Kiev issued a warrant for Aksyonov and Vladimir Konstantinov's arrest, and the Security Service of Ukraine was charged to bring them to court.
  Due to the Crimean crisis, on 17 March 2014, he was put on Canadian, EU and US sanction lists; his assets in these countries were frozen, and Aksyonov was banned from entering these countries.
  In the 2014 Crimean parliamentary election, Aksyonov ran as a candidate for United Russia because, according to himself, "The Popular Front" had delegated him to the United Russia party list.
  Sergey Aksyonov was re-elected after the 2019 Crimean parliamentary election. But, during his second term, he refused to combine the positions of Head of the Republic and Prime Minister. The new Prime Minister was appointed Yury Gotsanyuk.
caption: Aksyonov in Armyansk, Crimea, September 2018
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