Crimea's international business contacts significantly increase

Crimea has significantly increased its number of business contacts with the world over the past three years, the deputy prime minister of the Russian region, Georgy Muradov, said.

"Undoubtedly, international business contacts are expanding every year. Now they are gaining a wider scope and more and more governmental, and parliamentary structures of various countries are making decisions that essentially acknowledge the fact that the Crimeans legitimately expressed their will and the referendum was fair," Sputnik cited Muradov as saying.

He added that awareness within the international community is growing with regard to the fact that the Crimeans definitively and irrevocably expressed their with their decision to reunite with the historical homeland.

"This is the main understanding in the world that is growing stronger. This is the goal of our international contacts," the deputy prime minister stressed.