21:05
26.3.2014
Barring any breaking news, that ends our blogging for March 26.
20:41
26.3.2014
From the wires, via our news desk:
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Russia has moved forces closer to the border with Ukraine in recent days despite assurances it would not invade. At a meeting with British counterpart Phillip Hammond Wednesday, Hagel said, "They [the Russians] continue to build up their forces." Hagel said he had received guarantees from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu last week that Russia would not invade Ukraine. Hammond said "other Russian players, including Minister Shoigu, may express their views, but it's a moot point." Hammond added, "All evidence suggests that the Russian agenda is being very much run by President Putin personally."
20:34
26.3.2014
La Sevastopol?
Is Sevastapol the Atlantic City of E.Europe? The Macau? #Russia srsly weighing 'gambling zone' #Crimea http://t.co/4Q3750uuAj @Bloomberg
— Aureliano Buendia (@Aureliano_no_24) March 26, 2014
20:32
26.3.2014
CNN on the cyberwar over Crimea.
Rival #hackers fighting proxy war over #Crimea http://t.co/8Md7SX7ClH #cybersecurity
— Cyveillance (@Cyveillance) March 26, 2014
20:05
26.3.2014
Andrei Zubov, a 62-year-old historian and professor of philosophy at the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Affairs (MGIMO), once compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.
So MGIMO officially fired professor Zubov for his position on #Crimea, "harmful for the state". Wecome to 1937. http://t.co/YHr6kXhEEq
— Natalia Melnychuk (@pravolivo) March 26, 2014
19:59
26.3.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service on Right Sektor squaring off against the police after the death of Oleksandr Muzychko (in Ukrainian).
19:55
26.3.2014
Interesting. Resistance, or a new political "movement"?
Around 300 protesters rallied in #Sevastopol this afternoon asking for local authorities to resign pic.twitter.com/9bWVlxN46o @paulgypteau | PR
— Euromaidan PR (@EuromaidanPR) March 26, 2014
18:58
26.3.2014
U.S. President Barack Obama says that "in the 21st century, the borders of Europe cannot be redrawn with force."
18:38
26.3.2014
Full text of President Obama's speech, as prepared for delivery. http://t.co/xreFtY1864”
— Geoffrey Pyatt (@GeoffPyatt) March 26, 2014
18:38
26.3.2014
Kremlin against censorship?
Peskov says turning off Russian channels in #Ukraine is bad. But turning off Russian channels in #Russia is okay? http://t.co/t0ZQt77sVU
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 26, 2014