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UN Envoy Threatened In Crimea, Agrees To End Visit
Former Dutch Ambassador to Ukraine Robert Serry was confronted and threatened by 10-15 armed individuals today while on an official visit in Crimea.
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UK, US, Ukraine insist on direct talks between Moscow and Kiev
UK, US, Ukraine insist on direct talks between Moscow and Kiev
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Obama Signs Order Declaring Ukraine Crisis an 'Extraordinary Threat' to National Security
On Thursday morning, President Barack Obama signed an executive order which designated the ongoing crisis in Ukraine prompted by a Russian military invasion of the Crimean Peninsula "an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."
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Crimea's Complicated History in Brief
Crimea is a strategically located region on the Black Sea with a complicated history. Crimea is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea and an autonomous, predominantly Russian.
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Russia sinks their own ship to block Ukrainian navy in port
YEVPATORIA, Ukraine — An anti-submarine boat may have been the first casualty of the Russian incursion into Crimea, but it was hardly an act of violence, much less war: The Russian navy sank one of its own, junked vessels to create an obstacle, a Ukrainian official said Wednesday.
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Russia would attack Russians to justify war in Ukraine, ex-Putin aide alleges. Carefully staged ‘incidents’ will soon provide a pretext of all-out war
Carefully staged ‘incidents’ will soon provide a pretext for all-out war, a former Kremlin insider warns.
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U.S., China officials agree Ukraine's territorial integrity important
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China agrees with the United States that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine must be respected in its dispute with Russia, the White House said in statement on Wednesday
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Ukraine crisis is about Great Power oil, gas pipeline rivalry
Nafeez Ahmed: Resource scarcity, competition to dominate Eurasian energy corridors, are behind Russian militarism and US interference...
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Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk: Crimea 'was, is and will be an integral part of Ukraine'
A Crimean parliament decision to hold a referendum on separation from Ukraine is an "illegitimate decision," Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
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The Ukraine crisis through the whimsy of international law
When it comes to the standoff in Ukraine, there is enough diplomatic hypocrisy on both sides to make even a Lewis Carroll hurtle back down the rabbit hole, Neil Macdonald writes.
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Ukrainian leader declares Crimea referendum an illegal farce
Ukraine's acting president said on Thursday a referendum planned by the pro-Moscow parliament in Crimea on joining Russia was illegitimate, and declared it a farce and crime organized by the Russian military. In a short televised address, Oleksander Turchinov said the Ukrainian parliament would start procedures to dismiss the Crimean assembly and block the referendum.
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Leaked call raises questions about who was behind sniper attacks in Ukraine
Don't read too much into the conversation. That was the message Wednesday from Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet after a phone call between him and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was leaked. In the recording, which was posted to YouTube and picked up by Russian media, Paet talks about his recent visit to Ukraine. He says a doctor named "Olga" told him opponents of Ukraine's ousted President may have been responsible for deadly sniper fire.
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Confessions of a Former RT Employee
Meet Sam Knight, the Washington-based journalist and acerbic tweeter who, before he turned to freelancing, spent a summer working for the English-language outlet for RT. The network, formerly known as Russia Today, has been the toast of the media this week as events in Ukraine continue to unfold.
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Syria's Assad says he supports Putin on Ukraine
Damascus — Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has expressed his "solidarity" with Russian President Vladimir Putin's position on the crisis in Ukraine, state media reported on Thursday.
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Putin is not crazy. Frustrating, unpredictable. Not crazy.
President Obama has called Vladimir Putin “the bored kid in the back of the classroom,” putting on an unsmiling, tough-guy “shtick.” Hillary Clinton just compared the Russian president to Hitler. The State Department says Putin’s reasoning on Ukraine amounts to “two plus two equals five.” Republican House Speaker Boehner branded him a “thug.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly said he is “in another world.”
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Putin Is Losing In Ukraine And That's Our Biggest Problem Right Now
Vladimir Putin is not, as some would believe, playing the role of a chess master, but that of a desperate man with nothing left to lose.
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The Muslim Tatars in Crimea are getting giant "X"s marked on their doors
As Crimea prepares for a referendum on its future, its native Muslim residents are preparing for the worst.
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CNN team told to stop broadcasting from Crimea
A CNN team in Crimea was told to stop broadcasting on Thursday or they'd be kicked out of their hotel. CNN International correspondent Anna Coren told Anderson Cooper her team was told by the management of the hotel they are staying in that unless they stopped broadcasting the hotel would kick them out. "Really bizarre, just a couple of hours...
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Ukraine crisis: Crimea military base stand-off 'ends'
Pro-Russian soldiers reportedly briefly take over a Ukrainian military base outside Sevastopol, as tensions continue on the Crimean peninsula.
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Britain’s KGB Sugar Daddy
On Monday, a freelancer photographer called Steve Back snapped a photograph of a document being carried cavalierly in the open by British officials entering Downing Street. The document was a list of suggested countermoves by Westminster to play against the Kremlin for Russia’s recent invasion of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
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