Local minister of ecology and natural resources Gennady Naraev and Russian lawmaker Alexander Terentyev also vied for the post of Crimean chief executive, but they did not gain a single vote.

KERCH, August 17. /TASS/. Crimean resorts are popular among Russians and the peninsula’s hotels are packed with tourists, Sergey Ivanov, Russia’s presidential chief of staff, said on Monday.

Shortly after the US presidential elections, the Mejlis — the only authorised representative and executive body of the Crimean Tatar people — issued a statement on the "inadmissibility of ...