Kolstø, Pål; Edemsky, Andrei (1995). «Russians in the Former Soviet Republics»(en inglés). C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN9781850652069. Consultado el 14 de marzo de 2014. «On 5 May 1992 the Crimean parliament adopted a constitution plus a Declaration of Independence. [...] However, on the very next day, the parliament inserted a new sentence into the new constitution to the effect that the Crimean republic [was] a constituent part of the Ukrainian republic." p. 19».