AKIPRESS.COM - The Crimean parliament on Friday is due to adopt a new constitution for the region, which has been already agreed upon with the Kremlin, RIA Novosti reported.

The new constitution defines the republic as a democracy and states that its territory is “united and indivisible.”

A number of lawmakers in the republic’s parliament will be cut from 100 to 50 and the share of parliamentarians elected on party lists will decline by 25 percent. No national or cultural autonomous regions are envisaged by the document, according to Crimean sources.

Crimea, previously an autonomous republic within Ukraine, refused to recognize the legitimacy of the government in Kiev which seized power as a result of a coup in February. The region instead sought reunification with Russia, a move backed by over 96 percent of voters in a referendum.

The republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, which has a special status within the region, were added as the 84th and 85th federal subjects of the Russian Federation after President Vladimir Putin signed the relevant decree last month.