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Russian Forces Seize Last Major Ukrainian Military Base in Crimea

Russian Forces Seize Last Major Ukrainian Military Base in Crimea

Russian troops used armored vehicles, automatic gunfire and stun grenades on Saturday to seize a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea a day after President Vladimir Putin signed laws completing Russia's annexation of the Black Sea peninsula, reuters reports. March 23 2014, 15:43 3 067 просмотрs

Belarus De Facto Acknowledges Crimea as Part of Russia

Belarus De Facto Acknowledges Crimea as Part of Russia

Belarus has de fact acknowledged the Republic of Crimea as Russia's territory, President Alexander Lukashenko said Sunday, ria.ru reports. March 23 2014, 15:27 2 767 просмотрs

UN Secretary-General visits Russia and Ukraine as part of his diplomatic efforts to de-escalate current tensions

UN Secretary-General visits Russia and Ukraine as part of his diplomatic efforts to de-escalate current tensions

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon headed to Russia and Ukraine as part of his diplomatic efforts to de-escalate current tensions, the UN Press Centre reported on March 19, ca-news.org reports. March 20 2014, 13:38 1 607 просмотрs

Ukraine begins process of withdrawal from CIS

Ukraine begins process of withdrawal from CIS

Ukraine has begun the process of withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), ukrinform.ua reports. March 20 2014, 13:33 1 671 просмотрs

Possible debris from missing Malaysian jet seen on Australian satellite images

Possible debris from missing Malaysian jet seen on Australian satellite images

Australian authorities say they have found two objects on satellite images that could be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, euronews reports. March 20 2014, 13:00 2 385 просмотрs

Full English-language translation of Putin's speech claiming Ukraine's Crimea for Russia

Full English-language translation of Putin's speech claiming Ukraine's Crimea for Russia

With Crimean Prime Minister Serhiy Aksyonov sitting in the front row, Russian President Vladimir Putin carried through on his threat to annex Ukraine's Crimean peninsula as part of Russia -- a violation of international law that he justified as heeding the will of Crimean voters in a March 16 referendum, kyivpost reports. March 19 2014, 17:00 4 066 просмотрs

Germany says it could live without Russian gas

Germany says it could live without Russian gas

Germany could live without its Russian gas supply if necessary, Philipp Missfelder, foreign policy spokesperson for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling political coalition, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday, cnn.com reports. March 19 2014, 15:36 1 406 просмотрs

President Atambayev signs decree on resignation of Kyrgyz Government

President Atambayev signs decree on resignation of Kyrgyz Government

President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev received today Chief of the President's Administration Daniyar Narymbayev who submitted an official letter of the leader of the parliamentary majority coalition “Yrys Aldy Yntymak”, Felix Kulov, about the loss of its parliamentary majority status, the press service of the President reported, akipress reports. March 19 2014, 12:41 1 495 просмотрs

Crimean Tatars Will Have to Vacate Land – Official

Crimean Tatars Will Have to Vacate Land – Official

Ukraine’s breakaway region of Crimea will ask Tatars to vacate part of the land where they now live in exchange for new territory elsewhere in the region, a top Crimean government official said Tuesday, ria.ru reports. March 19 2014, 11:17 1 822 просмотрs

Arrest of Firtash may be another sign of US playing hardball with Russia

Arrest of Firtash may be another sign of US playing hardball with Russia

Last week police in Austria, acting on a warrant from the FBI in the United States, arrested Dmitry Firtash. He's one of Ukraine's wealthiest businessmen, with ties to deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and possibly to Russian President Vladimir Putin, pri.org reports. March 18 2014, 19:07 1 846 просмотрs

Los Angeles Wakes Up To St. Patrick's Day Earthquake

Los Angeles Wakes Up To St. Patrick's Day Earthquake

A pre-dawn earthquake rolled across the Los Angeles basin on Monday, rattling nerves and shaking buildings along a 150-mile swath of Southern California but causing no major damage, huffingtonpost.com reports. March 18 2014, 18:23 3 678 просмотрs

Mindful of Past, Many Tatars Fear a Russian Future

Mindful of Past, Many Tatars Fear a Russian Future

Among the voices drowned out by victory celebrations across Crimea as it voted to leave Ukraine and join Russia were those of the Tatars, a minority group for whom the prospect of a return to Moscow rule brings only fear and uncertainty, trust.org reports. March 18 2014, 14:09 4 651 просмотрs

Ukraine Recalls Ambassador From Moscow

Ukraine Recalls Ambassador From Moscow

Kiev recalled its ambassador to Moscow on Monday for consultations on its breakaway region of Crimea, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, ria.ru reports. March 18 2014, 13:57 2 453 просмотрs

Russia's President Putin moves towards annexing Crimea

Russia's President Putin moves towards annexing Crimea

Russian President Vladimir Putin has informed parliament formally of Crimea's request to join the country, the first legislative step towards absorbing the peninsula, bbc reports. March 18 2014, 13:33 2 730 просмотрs

Ukrainian government refuses to remove troops from Crimea, prepares for war

Ukrainian government refuses to remove troops from Crimea, prepares for war

In the wake of a March 16 referendum in which Crimeans voted to join the Russian Federation, Ukrainian leaders refused to cede any part of the peninsula, calling on their troops to prepare for war, kyivpost reports. March 18 2014, 09:39 3 218 просмотрs

Putin Signs Decree Recognizing Crimea as 'Sovereign State'

Putin Signs Decree Recognizing Crimea as 'Sovereign State'

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday recognizing Ukraine's Crimea region as a sovereign state, nbcnews.com reports. March 18 2014, 09:08 1 378 просмотрs

Ukraine's parliament approves Hr 6.7 billion for defense, mobilization of armed forces

Ukraine's parliament approves Hr 6.7 billion for defense, mobilization of armed forces

Ukraine's parliament approved emergency funding of Hr 6.7 billion (more than $600 million) for military spending and agreed to mobilize military and National Guard units today -- a significant amount in a national budget that doesn't exceed $50 billion a year, kyivpost.com reports. March 17 2014, 16:27 1 398 просмотрs

Crimea result makes "a mockery" of democracy, says Hague

Crimea result makes "a mockery" of democracy, says Hague

The government says it rejects the result of Crimea's referendum, which Foreign Secretary William Hague has denounced as a "mockery of proper democratic practice", bbc reports. March 17 2014, 16:16 2 554 просмотрs

Sochi 2014 Paralympic Closing Ceremony

Sochi 2014 Paralympic Closing Ceremony

Russia's first ever Winter Paralympic Games, held in the country’s resort city of Sochi between March 7 and 16, come to its wrapping-up ceremony on Sunday night by setting a number of records in all spheres, voiceofrussia.com reports. March 17 2014, 12:45 1 565 просмотрs

Putin Tells Obama Crimean Vote Complies with International Law

Putin Tells Obama Crimean Vote Complies with International Law

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Barack Obama that the referendum in Crimea complied with the international law and the UN Charter, the Kremlin press service said Monday, ria.ru reports. March 17 2014, 12:40 2 351 просмотрs

Out, Damned 'Ы'! Zhirinovsky Wants Russian To Shed 'Nasty, Asiatic' Letter

Out, Damned 'Ы'! Zhirinovsky Wants Russian To Shed 'Nasty, Asiatic' Letter

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the ultranationalist Russian politician known for outrageous remarks on everything from migrant laborers to terrorism, has now targeted a letter in the Russian alphabet, rferl.org reports. March 17 2014, 11:39 1 829 просмотрs

Crimeans vote over 90 percent to quit Ukraine for Russia

Crimeans vote over 90 percent to quit Ukraine for Russia

With over half the votes counted, 95.5 percent had chosen the option of annexation by Moscow, the head of the referendum commission, Mikhail Malyshev, said two hours after polls closed. Turnout was 83 percent, he added - a high figure given that many who opposed the move had said they would boycott the vote, reuters reports. March 17 2014, 11:18 4 067 просмотрs

Ukraine: deadly clashes in Donetsk

Ukraine: deadly clashes in Donetsk

At least one person has been killed and more than a dozen injured in clashes between hundreds of pro- and anti-government protesters in Donetsk, euronews reports. March 14 2014, 11:39 1 518 просмотрs

China warns of dangerous Russia sanctions 'spiral'

China warns of dangerous Russia sanctions 'spiral'

China's top envoy to Germany has warned the West against punishing Russia with sanctions for its intervention in Ukraine, saying such measures could lead to a dangerous chain reaction that would be difficult to control, reuters reports. March 14 2014, 11:14 2 273 просмотрs

Merkel accuses Russia of adopting ‘law of the jungle’ in Ukraine

Merkel accuses Russia of adopting ‘law of the jungle’ in Ukraine

German chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday accused Russia of resorting to “the law of the jungle” in the Crimea crisis, in a tough speech to parliament in which she warned that the EU would go ahead with its planned sanctions unless Moscow changed course, ft.com reports. March 13 2014, 19:27 3 565 просмотрs