Today, February 11, the National Council of Crimea, 65 members voted in favour of the decision on nationalization of Ukrtelecom, RBK-Ukraine (РБК-Україна) reports.
This was proposed by Chief of the Crimean Council Sergiy Aksionov. In his speech, he noted that the company was not reregistered as required under the laws of the Russian Federation, and payments were made in hryvnia. Besides, he mentioned the yesterday’s telephone network switch off with Crimea proposing to nationalize Ukrtelecom. The MPs present in the hall supported the proposal.
Yesterday, at about one o’clock at night, Ukrtelecom that is owned by Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov turned off the telephone network with Crimea.
