Crimea’s First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Termigaliyev has accused the Ukrainian regime of double standards it uses to assess the current situation in the breakaway republic.

Crimea’s First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Termigaliyev has accused the Ukrainian regime of double standards it uses to assess the current situation in the breakaway republic.

He also reminded the coup-imposed PM Arseniy Yatsenyuk who backed Kosovo’s secession bid back in 2007 when he was the country’s foreign minister.

Mr. Termigaliyev pointed that the premier had no right to denounce the Crimean Supreme Council’s decision to call for a referendum on the region’s independence as illegal after he recognized Kosovo’s independence vote in 2007.

Speaking at a press conference in Crimea’s capital city of Simferopol, the republic’s deputy premier concluded that “double standards are unfortunately becoming a norm when assessing the situation in the Crimean Republic.”

The Crimeans are expected to go to polls this Sunday to decide the fate of the Russian-majority region that has been deadlocked over its status with the self-proclaimed government in Kiev that came to power as a result of the February 22 coup.