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It’s a Scary Time to Be Super-Rich in Ukraine
Ukraine has gotten rid of Viktor Yanukovych. What now will it do with the country’s oligarchs, the business people who bankrolled the ousted leader while amassing fabulous wealth under his rule? Public rage against these tycoons helped fuel the protests that toppled Yanukovych. Some, including members of the so-called “family” of the president’s relatives and close associates, could face prison time if they haven’t fled the country in time.
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Ukraine's Yanukovych Is In Moscow
The RBK report was impossible to confirm, but security at the Ukraina Hotel was unusually heavy late Wednesday.
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Crimea government buildings seized
Ukraine's security forces have cordoned off two government buildings seized by armed men in Simferopol, the capital of the Russian-majority region of Crimea.
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Ukraine accuses Russia of 'military invasion' as gunmen seize airports
Russian military were blocking an airport in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea near the Russian naval base while unidentified men were patrolling another airport serving the regional capital, Ukraine's new Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Friday.
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Ukainian President Yanukovych was planning bigger bloodbath
The top law enforcement official for ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who is now a fugitive fleeing mass murder charges, had planned an even greater bloodbath to suppress the EuroMaidan anti-government protests, according to Batkivshchyna Party lawmaker Hennadii Moskal, who said he has documents to prove his allegations.
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Putin’s Ukraine gambit
The U.S. must counter Russia’s neo-colonialism.
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Obama says back off, Putin
(CNN) -- The United States is "deeply concerned" by reports of Russian military movements inside Ukraine, President Barack Obama said Friday, saying any violation of Ukraine's sovereignty would be "deeply destabilizing.
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Russia 'troops aim to provoke Kiev'
Ukraine's acting President Oleksander Turchynov has accused Russia of deploying troops to Crimea and trying to provoke Kiev into "armed conflict".
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Revolution in Ukraine: Dispatch from the Presidential Palace
As protesters in central Kiev took over the parliament building on Saturday, others headed to President Yanukovych's highly controversial private estate of Mezyhrhrya, just outside the city. The estate, half the size of Monaco, cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build, much of it coming from embezzlement and corruption, and had long been in the protesters' sights.
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Yatseniuk, confirmed as prime minister, accuses Yanukovych administration robbing Ukraine of $70 billion; 'treasury is empty'
About $70 billion has been withdrawn from Ukraine's financial system over the last three years, new Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said on Feb. 27, alleging corruption on a scale that not even graft-ridden Ukrainian has ever seen.
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Russia approves troops for Ukraine
Russia's upper house of parliament has approved President Putin's request for Russian forces to be used in Ukraine.
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Ukrtelekom says Internet, phone connections cut between Crimea and rest of Ukraine
Ukrtelecom announced today that the company's offices in Crimea have been seized in several locations, cutting phone and Internet service between the Crimean peninsula and the rest of Ukraine. However, service was restored after a few hours, according to people in Crimea.
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Obama tells Putin of 'deep concern'
President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin of his “deep concern” over Russia’s military intervention into Ukraine in a 90-minute conversation Saturday afternoon, and warned that Russian forces’ continued presence in Ukraine would hurt Russia’s standing in the international community, according to a White House statement.
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Ukraine calls full army mobilization
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Ukraine was "on the brink of disaster". In Crimea, Ukrainian soldiers faced off with Russian soldiers surrounding their bases while the Russian army is said to be digging trenches on the border with mainland Ukraine.
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Ukraine mobilizes troops amid crisis with Russia
Russia's upper house of parliament voted Saturday to approve the sending of Russian military forces into Ukraine, amid mounting tensions in the Crimea region.
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Moscow's Ukraine gamble
If this turns into a full-scale battle of wills between Moscow and Kiev, the consequences could be unthinkable - at worst the provocation of a bitter civil war inside Ukraine; instability on Europe's frontiers; and a bitter legacy between the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the West that could have serious ramifications across a range of international problems from Syria to the fate of Iran's nuclear program.
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France wants Sochi G8 summit preparations suspended over Ukraine
France’s foreign minister called on Sunday for preparations to be suspended for the upcoming G8 summit in Sochi over Russia’s “military escalation” in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula.
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New Ukraine navy chief defects
The newly appointed head of Ukraine's navy has sworn allegiance to the Crimea region, in the presence of its unrecognised pro-Russian leader. Rear Admiral Denys Berezovsky was only made head of the navy on Saturday, as the government in Kiev reacted to the threat of Russian invasion.
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Here’s what’s really happening in Ukraine, according to Russian bloggers
Events in Ukraine are changing quickly. After a bloody Thursday that featured some of the worst internecine fighting in recent memory, the past week brought one challenge after another for the fledgling interim government in Kiev. Yanukovych, now a wanted criminal, fled the capital for Russia, continuing to cling to his presidency, as former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was freed after 2 1/2 years in prison.
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Russia's Seizure of Crimea Is Making Former Soviet States Nervous
For the first time since the Soviet Union's collapse more than two decades ago, Russian military forces have moved into an Eastern European country and occupied its territory. Over 15,000 Russian soldiers are now stationed in Ukraine's autonomous republic of Crimea, according to Ukrainian officials, in a deployment ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin to protect "Russian citizens and compatriots on Ukrainian territory."
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