SIMFEROPOL, February 27, (ITAR-TASS). The parliament of Crimea, an autonomy within Ukraine, elected Sergei Aksyonov the new prime minister on Thursday, February 27.

Aksyonov is a Crimean MP and heads the Russian Unity faction in the Crimean parliament.

Earlier in the day, the parliament passed a vote of no-confidence in the government and terminated its powers, having dismissed Anatoly Mogilev as the Crimean prime minister.