The triumph of historical justice called the State Councilor of the Republic of Crimea Ivan Shonus return to the peninsula of the name "Tavrida". "Why in the Crimea can not triumph historical justice and it can not be called" the Republic of Crimea - Tavrida ", - said the deputy during a press conference, RIA" News Crimea ". Moreover, he is sure that renaming will allow "getting rid of various encroachments on the part of Western countries that have some claims to the Republic of Crimea as a Russian subject". Such an idea, according to the head of the Crimean Greeks, is promising, since the peninsula bears its present name only since the 1920s, "and the rest of the time was called Tavrida". He recalled that the Russian Empress Catherine II in the manifesto on the entry of the Crimea, Taman and Kuban into the Russian Empire, mentions it as a "Tavricheskaya gubernia". All this led the deputy to the idea that the return of the historical name will give a positive impetus to the development of the republic. Moreover, "there are precedents like North Ossetia-Alania, Yakutia (Sakha)". Recall that earlier the Crimean Greeks came up with the initiative to return the Crimea to the historical name, arguing for its appeal by saying that "the Greeks brought civilization to the peninsula and the name was given to the Greek".