- 20:16 19/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday submitted the Crimea reunification treaty to the parliament for ratification, the legislature’s press service said.
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- 10:17 19/03/2014
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian envoy Andrei Vorobyov to hand him a letter of protest against Crimea’s reunification treaty with Moscow.
- 04:00 19/03/2014
The United Kingdom has put on hold its military cooperation with Russia, Foreign Secretary Willaim Hague said on Tuesday, calling the reunification of Crimea “a land grab.”3
- 20:46 18/03/2014
Crimea is back in its “home port” after a long and difficult journey, the Russian president told a crowd of about 120,000 people, who gathered in Moscow’s Red Square to show their support for the breakaway peninsula.6
- 19:28 18/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukrainian nationalists bore full responsibility for the civil crisis in the country which resulted in the reunification of Crimea with Russia.2
- 18:24 18/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the country was open to further cooperation with NATO, but remained opposed to the organization’s presence in historic Russian territories.4
- 17:45 18/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Crimea signed a treaty Tuesday reunifying the Ukrainian breakaway region with Russia after 60 years as part of Ukraine.1
- 14:50 18/03/2014
The Russian Parliament voted Tuesday to appoint Ella Pamfilova to the post of Human Rights Ombudsman.
- 12:45 18/03/2014
Canada on Tuesday joined the US and EU in announcing sanctions against 10 top Russian and Ukrainian officials following a referendum Sunday in Ukraine’s Crimea that saw voters overwhelmingly support reunification with Russia.5
- 11:33 18/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a draft treaty between Crimea and Moscow on the Ukrainian breakaway region’s reunification with Russia, the Kremlin said Tuesday.1
- 23:52 17/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to recognize Ukraine’s breakaway region of Crimea as an independent state, paving the way for its reunification with Russia, the Kremlin press service said on Monday.1
- 21:10 17/03/2014
Leaders of all four factions in the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, jointly submitted a draft statement on Ukraine’s breakaway region of Crimea on Monday evening.1
- 15:10 17/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will address an assembly of both houses of parliament, as well as heads of regions and representatives of public organizations about the request by Ukraine’s Crimea to become part of Russia, the Kremlin said Monday.2
- 14:10 17/03/2014
A majority of Russians believe their country is a great power and an important player in the international arena, an independent pollster said Monday.1
- 02:13 17/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Barack Obama that the referendum in Crimea complied with the international law and the UN Charter, the Kremlin press service said Monday.8
- 06:57 16/03/2014
Russia may have dominated the Sochi Paralympics so far, but it suffered two setbacks Saturday, losing the sledge hockey final to the United States and the wheelchair curling gold medal game to Canada.
- 07:53 15/03/2014
Russian President Vladimir Putin told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a phone conversation on Friday that the upcoming referendum in Crimea was in line with the UN Charter.8
- 05:40 15/03/2014
Russia will wait at least until after Ukraine’s presidential election on May 25 to discuss continued payments under a $15 billion loan agreement signed with the country last year, a senior official said Friday.
- 04:00 15/03/2014
UN monitors will investigate all cases of human rights violations in Ukraine, no matter who the perpetrators are, a senior UN official said on Friday.
