Crimean Prosecutor Natalia Poklonskaya said that the document of abdication of Nicholas II from the throne lacked a legal force. Such a statement she made ​​at the ceremony of unveiling a monument to the last emperor of the Romanov House in Livadia."This is a copy paper, signed in pencil, without complying with all necessary legal and procedural procedures, forms, so this paper does not carry any legal force. All this is well understood ", - said the prosecutor.
Poklonskaya also drew an analogy with some attempts to rewrite the history of the Great Patriotic War. She emphasized that the document was signed by Nicholas II in the history books is "presented as alleged abdication."