 By 30 June, Crimean Communists forced the Kiev government to expand on the already extensive autonomous status of Crimea.In the same period, Russian president Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine's Leonid Kravchuk agreed to divide the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet between Russia and the newly formed Ukrainian Navy.On 24 October, Meshkov re-registered his movement as the "Republican Party of Crimea – Party of the Republican Movement of Crimea".