An inquiry by the interim Ukrainian government implicated members of the special Berkut riot police in the deaths of 76 anti-government protesters in Kiev in February.
The Majilis of Crimean Tatars voted to seek "a national autonomous territory" on the peninsula, with leaders calling on their people to stay and fight for their rights.
The IMF imposes austerity on Ukraine as Russia jacks up gas prices. Meanwhile, the global industry exploits the crisis to fast-track exports of fracked gas as a "lever against Russia."
The UN General Assembly approved a resolution declaring the Crimean referendum to secede from Ukraine invalid, and calling on UN member states not to recognize it.
Russia's annexation of Crimea has sent nearly a thousand of the region's ethnic Tatars fleeing the peninsula for western Ukraine, faced with threats by local authorities.
Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers in Crimea are now facing off with Russian troops and paramilitary forces—with one reported dead as Crimea was formally annexed.
The Crimean parliament formally declared the region independent and asked to join the Russian Federation following a popular vote to secede from Ukraine.
Putin's propagandists have everything invested in exaggerating the fascist threat in Ukraine, while the "MSM" in the West have everything invested in denying it.
Crimean Tatars held protests in the peninsula, calling for a boycott of the referendum on union with Russia and demanding that Russian troops return to barracks.
NATO maneuvers in the Black Sea—just across from Crimea—come as Ukrainian lawmakers threaten to seek nuclear weapons if the West does not act against Russia.
In light of the Crimea crisis, the EU is reconsidering approval of Russia's pending South Stream and Nord Stream pipelines, that would strategically bypass Ukraine.
Zionist settlers in Hebron raise a banner reading “Palestine never existed!” This perverse denialism is alas mirrored in much that the “left” is saying about Ukraine.
