Crimean Crisis

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  Russia Says Ukraine Neutrality, Demilitarisation Key To Ending Conflict

  Russian President Vladimir Putin told his French counterpart on Monday that the demilitarisation of Ukraine and Western recognition of Russian sovereignty over the Crimean peninsula were prerequisites to ending fighting in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.

• Canada Announces More Sanctions Over Ukraine Crisis

  Canada announced economic sanctions and travel bans on Saturday on 11 Russians and Ukrainians, as well as a Crimean oil company, saying they facilitated the violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.

• 10,000 People Displaced in Ukraine Since Start of Crisis: UN

  At least 10,000 people have been driven from their homes since the start of the Ukraine crisis, with Crimean Tatars the hardest-hit community, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.

• European Union Sanctions Two Crimean Firms, 13 People Over Ukraine Crisis

  The European Union ramped up sanctions over the Ukraine crisis on Monday, adding two Crimean firms and 13 people to an existing blacklist, EU diplomats said.

• Brent Rises Towards $109 on Renewed Ukraine Tensions

  Brent crude oil climbed towards $109 per barrel on Monday as the deepening crisis between Russia and Ukraine unsettled investors.

• Vladimir Putin Asks Ukraine Separatists to Postpone May 11 Referendum

  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday asked pro-Kremlin separatists in southeastern Ukraine to postpone a series of disputed referendums planned for this weekend on declaring greater autonomy or outright independence from Kiev.

• Crimea votes to join Russia by 93 per cent: exit polls

  Crimeans voted overwhelmingly on Sunday in favour of joining former political master Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation amid the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War.

• Timeline: From Kiev protests to Crimean split

  A chronology of the main developments in Ukraine and Crimea, from when the political crisis erupted in November to Crimea's controversial poll on whether to secede from Ukraine on Sunday.

• Barack Obama calls six world leaders about Ukraine crisis: White House

  President Barack Obama placed a series of calls to six world leaders on Saturday as tensions rose in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimean region, the White House said.

• Russian assembly says Crimea's parliament has right to referendum

  Crimea's parliament has the right to hold a referendum on the region's future status and if its people vote to join Russia, Russia's upper house of parliament will support their decision, the assembly's speaker said on Friday.

• In 'propaganda' war, Crimeans hear different reality

  Two days before Russian forces began the operation to seize Crimea, somebody threw two Molotov cocktails through the window of Black Sea TV.