I can’t believe it took them that long to figure this out. *** Source: Globe and Mail In a sweeping rebuke of Moscow, the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly affirmed Ukraine’s territorial integrity and deemed the referendum that led to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula illegal. The…
Source: Reuters – Russian President Vladimir Putin, defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, signed a treaty on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia but said he did not plan to seize any other regions of Ukraine. In a fiercely patriotic address to a joint session of parliament in the Kremlin,…
The preliminary results are in…and as the world assumed…though hoping against hope. Crimea is now once again part of Russia. They voted 93% in favour. They had no other choice Now the question remains…Who’s next to be bullied back into the Russian Federation?
I don’t care which way this goes. That’s up to the Crimean people (if they actually do want to be part of Russia again). But it’s not nice to be forced into picking only one option. They should also be able to choose the options of being part of Ukraine…
More info on the Crimea Crisis. *** Source: Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The top diplomats for Russia and the U.S. voiced pessimism Friday about negotiating an immediate end to the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend about whether to secede. Related Stories West readying…
This can’t be a sign that things are going well. *** Source: www.cbc.ca Ukraine began mobilizing its new National Guard on Friday as tension over the fate of Crimea heightened. Street violence flared again and Russia warned that it “reserves the right to take people under its protection.” More than…