As Russian soldiers stepped up their patrols of Crimea's military facilities and the peninsula's residents started receiving Russian passports, President Barack Obama and the EU announced new sanctions against Russian officials and a bank. (March 20).
As Russian soldiers stepped up their patrols of Crimea's military facilities and the peninsula's residents started receiving Russian passports, President Barack Obama and the EU announced new sanctions against Russian officials and a bank. (March 20)
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The White House has not reacted to Putin's decision Monday to recognize Crimea as an independent state. That announcement came just hours after President Obama announced sanctions and threatened further action if Russia does not respond. White House officials say the president is holding back because he still wants to leave the door open for a negotiated solution. Bill Plante reports.
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The peninsula of Crimea in southern Ukraine is at the centre of what is being seen as the biggest crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
Troops loyal to Russia have taken control of the region and the pro-Russian parliament has voted to join the Russian Federation, to be confirmed in a referendum.
Crimea is a centre of pro-Russian sentiment, which can spill into separatism. The region - a peninsula on Ukraine's Black Sea coast - has 2.3 million people, a majority of whom identify themselves as ethnic Russians and speak Russian.
The region voted heavily for Viktor Yanukovych in the 2010 presidential election, and many people there believe he is the victim of a coup - prompting separatists in Crimea's parliament to vote for joining the Russian Federation and a referendum on secession.
Is Crimea truly Ukrainian?
Russia has been the dominant power in Crimea for most of the past 200 years, since it annexed the region in 1783. But it was transferred by Moscow to Ukraine - then part of the Soviet Union - in 1954. Some ethnic Russians see that as a historical wrong.
However, another significant minority, the Muslim Crimean Tatars, point out that they were once the majority in Ukraine, and were deported in large numbers by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in 1944 for alleged collaboration with Nazi invaders in World War Two.
Ethnic Ukrainians made up 24% of the population in Crimea according to the 2001 census, comp
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President Barack Obama is freezing the U.S. assets of seven Russian officials, including top advisers to President Vladimir Putin, for their support of Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine. (March 17)
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About 93 percent of voters in the Crimean referendum have answered 'yes' to the autonomous republic joining Russia and only 7 percent of the vote participants want the region to remain part of Ukraine, according to first exit polls.
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'Preliminary results in referendum on whether Ukraine's Crimea region should join Russia or become an independent state show overwhelming support for Russia.'
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President Barack Obama announced Monday at the White House, that he plans to impose sanctions on specific individuals who have undermined the sovereignty of Ukraine, including Russian officials.
'The referendum in Crimea was in clear violation of Ukrainian and international law and will not be recognized by the international community,' Obama said in response to a referendum to determine if Crimea would secede from Ukraine and become part of Russia.
The president warned that 'continued Russian military intervention in Ukraine will only deepen Russia's diplomatic isolation and exact a greater toll on the Russian economy.'
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Ukraine's Crimean peninsula declared itself an independent nation Monday after its residents voted overwhelmingly to secede and join Russia, while the U.S. and European Union announced new sanctions against Russia for backing the referendum. (March 17)
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The European Union suspended talks with Russia on a wide-ranging economic pact and a visa agreement Thursday in response to its military incursion into Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, threatening tougher sanctions unless Moscow swiftly defuses the crisis.
The moves at an emergency EU summit came on the heels of visa and financial sanctions the Obama administration imposed on Russians and Ukrainians over the military incursion into Crimea.
EU President Herman Van Rompuy said further measures could include travel bans, asset freezes and the cancellation of an EU-Russia summit if Moscow does not quickly end its aggression and joins meaningful, multilateral talks within days to halt the crisis.
'We are in close coordination with the United States on this,' German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. 'We cannot go back to business as usual' with Russia, she added.
However, the EU's latest sanctions appeared weak compared to the U.S. ones and to what some more hawkish EU countries wanted, particularly those bordering Russia. Poland's leader noted the resistance to penalizing Moscow remains fairly high among some members of the 28-nation bloc because of Europe's close proximity, energy dependence and trade ties to Russia.
As the EU leaders met, the U.S. also sent six F-15 fighter jets to Lithuania to bolster air patrols over the Baltics, and a U.S. warship is now in the Black Sea to participate in long-planned exercis
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Crimea Officially belongs to Russia.
Russia President Putin: West Crossed Line, Crimea's Move similar to Ukraine's Move from Soviet.
President Vladimir Putin fiercely defended Russia's move to annex Crimea, saying Tuesday that the rights of ethnic Russians have been abused by the new Ukrainian government.
In a televised address to the nation, he said Crimea's vote Sunday to join Russia was in line with international law, reflecting its right for self-determination.
To back the claim, he pointed to Kosovo's independence bid from Serbia — supported by the West and opposed by Russia — and said that Crimea's secession from Ukraine repeats Ukraine's own secession from the Soviet Union in 1991.
He denied Western accusations that Russia invaded Crimea prior to the referendum, saying Russian troops were sent there in line with a treaty with Ukraine that allows Russia to have up to 25,000 troops at its Black Sea Fleet base in Crimea.
'The (Crimean) issue has a vital importance, a historic importance for all of us,' Putin said
Putin also said Russian relations with 'brotherly' Ukrainians will always be important to Russia.
Earlier, Putin approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, a key move in a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula.
Russia's Constitutional Court and the
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