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Constitution of the Republic Crimea - Russian Federation - Russia and the Republics Legal Materials - Second Series
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The State Council of the Republic Crimea, acknowledging the priority of universal human values and norms of international law, expressing adherence to the ideals of social justice, democracy, and a rule-of-law State, aspiring to defend and guarantee equal human rights and freedoms irrespective of race, color, skin, sex, language, and religion, national or social origin, and political convictions, having the purpose to preserve diversity and originality of national cultures historically formed on the territory of the Republic and ensure their equal development and mutual enrichment, relying on many centuries of common history with the peoples of the Russian Federation, realizing the will of the multinational people of the Republic Crimea expressed in the decision of the Republic referendum of 16 March 2014, adopts the
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC CRIMEA
William E. Butler, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London, attached to University College London, is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Founder and Director of The Vinogradoff Institute.
An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 3,500 books and articles on Russian, Soviet, Kazakhstan, Ukrainian, Uzbekistan, and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He has acted as Counsel to the EBRD, European Union, World Bank, United Nations, and Department for International Development of the United Kingdom on individual law reform projects.
The recipient of numerous honors for his service to Russian and international law, Professor Butler is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Associate of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and Member of the Russian Academy of Legal Sciences. He has been elected to his fourth term as a member of the Russian International Court of Commercial Arbitration. In 2003 Professor Butler was awarded the G. I. Tunkin Medal by the Russian International Law Association.
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