POB: Beltsy (Bălți), USSR (now Republic of Moldova)
Gender: male
Sergey Aksyonov was elected "Prime Minister of Crimea" in the Crimean Verkhovna Rada on 27 February 2014 in the presence of pro-Russian gunmen. His "election" was decreed unconstitutional by the acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov on 1 March 2014. He actively lobbied for the "referendum" of 16 March 2014 and was one of the co-signatories of the "treaty on Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation" of 18 March 2014. On 9 April 2014, he was appointed acting "Head" of the so-called "Republic of Crimea" by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. On 9 October 2014, he was formally "elected" "Head" of the so-call