Russia in Crimea? It's Europe's fault, say Eurosceptics By Paul Taylor BRUSSELS (Reuters) - If Russia has occupied and annexed Crimea, it's the European Union's fault for offering closer ties with Ukraine, according to Eurosceptical parties of the far left and nationalist right. European governments and mainstream politicians may have united in condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin's seizure of the Black Sea peninsula against Ukraine's ...
March 21, 2014 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
With a speech and a pen stroke, Putin takes over Crimea So declared Russian President Vladimir Putin as he granted the wish of Crimea's Russian majority, who voted overwhelmingly in a controversial Sunday referendum to leave Ukraine and join Russia. Mr. Putin's speech came barely 48 hours after the polls had closed in the strategic Black Sea peninsula. With bewildering speed Mr. Putin officially recognized Crimea's self-declared independence and ...
March 18, 2014 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News
2 Reported Killed in First Bloodshed of Russia-Ukraine Crisis KIEV, Ukraine — Shots were fired and two people were reportedly killed during an assault by armed men on a Ukrainian military facility outside the Crimean capital Simferopol on Tuesday. It was the first bloodshed since Russian troops seized the Black Sea peninsula in late February. Vladyslav Selezniov, Ukrainian Defense Ministry's head of communications for Crimean region, reported on Facebook ...
March 18, 2014 - Mashable