(video) Moscow mayor Yuri Luzkov insists that Sevastopol belongs to Russia
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzkov claimed he did not change his opinion about the status of Sevastopol, “UNIAN” agency reports.
“I made my statement concerning Sevastopol consciously and in a well reasoned way. There is no and will not be any revision of my stand to the status of Sevastopol”, Luzkov said.
Luzkov made his statement on a press-conference in Moscow on July 19th, 2010.
In 2008 Yuri Luzkov claimed that Russia will continue contending for the Russian official status of Sevastopol (Crimea). Moscow mayor delivered his speech in the central Nakhimov square in Sevastopol. He was banned from entry to Ukraine since then till 2010.
Yuri Luzkov speaking about the status of Sevastopol in Nakhimova square in Sevastopol on May 9th, 2008
Yuri Luzkov comments the status of Sevastopol in “Pozner” Russian TV show
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