The Supreme Council of ARC has been renamed as the State Council of the Republic of Crimea

At the extraordinary plenary meeting of the Supreme Council of ARC on 17 March 2014 adopted the decree “About the representative body of the Republic of Crimea”. Voted 85 deputies.

The document reads that “in connection with the secession of Ukraine and the proclamation of the Republic of Crimea as an independent state” Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea decides:

To name a representative body of the Republic of Crimea as the State Council of the Republic of Crimea - the Parliament of the Republic of Crimea and from the day of proclamation of independence of the Republic of Crimea.