"Ukraine has only one constitution, which has no provision for what the Crimeans are asking for," said Volodymyr Stretovic, head of the Ukrainian parliament's legal commission.
Crimea's pro-Russia legislature voted 62-3 Thursday to approve the explosive appeal. It called on the government and the central parliament in Kiev to change the nation's Soviet-era constitution so as to allow Crimea's mostly Russian population to have dual Russian and Ukrainian citizenship
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