 On 11 December 1992, the President of Ukraine called the attempt of "the Russian deputies to charge the Russian parliament with a task to define the status of Sevastopol as an "imperial disease"".On 17 December 1992, the office of the Ukrainian presidential representative in Crimea was created, which caused wave of protests a month later.Among the protesters that created the unsanctioned rally were the Sevastopol branches of the National Salvation Front, the Russian Popular Assembly, and the All-Crimean Movement of "the Voters for the Republic of Crimea".