The Sevastopol City Council (russian: link=no, Севастопольский городской совет, ua, Севастопольська міська рада, Crimean Tatar: Aqyar şeer şurası) is the

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...

legislature of the Ukrainian city of

Sevastopol Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea ...

. The Council is composed by 76 members.

Background

On the basis of the Law of Ukraine "On the representative of the President of Ukraine", the Decree of the

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on April 14, 1992 "On the situation of the local public administration" and the disposal of the President of Ukraine in Sevastopol number 9 from April 24, 1992 the Sevastopol city state administration was created, which superseded the Executive Committee of the Sevastopol City Council. In June 1994, the first direct election of the chairman of the City Council was held in Sevastopol. On August 2, 1995 pursuant to paragraph 1 of the Decree of the President of Ukraine № 640/95 of July 24, 1995 "On regional, Kyiv and Sevastopol city and of districts in the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol state administrations" formed the Sevastopol City State Administration. In September 1998, by the decision of the

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, Sevastopol was denied a direct vote to elect the chairman of the Council due to the lack of a law on the status of Sevastopol. For this reason, the chairman of the City Council was subsequently elected by the deputies of the City Council. Following the

2014 Russian annexation of Crimea In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. This event took place in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and is part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. The events in Kyiv th ...

, the City Council was unilaterally proclaimed to have been disbanded by the Russian occupying authorities and replaced by a

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, although the Council still operates ''

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'' as the city's parliament in Ukraine.

Composition

The most recent composition of the council was as follows:

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References

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* {{2014 Crimean crisis Government of Sevastopol Politics of Sevastopol Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation City councils *