10:25
17.3.2014
Following on the announcement by Crimean authorities that they would switch to Moscow's time zone at the end of this month.
I wonder how Dmitry Medvedev feels about the decision by Crimean authorities to adjust the times zones.
— Glenn Kates (@gkates) March 17, 2014
10:28
17.3.2014
should be 10 individuals from #Russia & 8 individuals from #Crimea on the EU sanction list to be adopted today
— Rikard Jozwiak (@RikardJozwiak) March 17, 2014
10:29
17.3.2014
Ukrainian security officials assure RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service in a livestream program that police will be able to stabilize the situation in the eastern and southern parts of the country.
Як правоохоронці зможуть стабілізувати ситуацію на Сході та Півдні України, говоримо зараз тут:http://t.co/9G3uahrC9x pic.twitter.com/nYXAS3N917
— Радіо Свобода (@radiosvoboda) March 17, 2014
10:31
17.3.2014
Crimean parliament makes Russian ruble official currency. Will act alongside hryvnia until early 2016. http://t.co/erQHSWFtc7
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) March 17, 2014
10:54
17.3.2014
Today's decision to introduce the ruble as an "official currency" in Crimea was announced on the website of the peninsula's parliament, the Supreme Council -- the same body that the Verkhovna Rada voted to dissolve in a special session in Kyiv on March 15. Today's announcement says the hryvnya will be an official currency alongside the ruble until January 1, 2016.
Both currencies have taken a severe knock this year, one aspect of the economic fallout of the crisis over Crimea. The hryvnya has dropped nearly 15 percent while the ruble has been hovering near record lows.
Both currencies have taken a severe knock this year, one aspect of the economic fallout of the crisis over Crimea. The hryvnya has dropped nearly 15 percent while the ruble has been hovering near record lows.
11:11
17.3.2014
More on the comparisons between the Crimean referendum and September's vote in Scotland on whether to split from the UK.
As we've noted here, Russian officials and media have accused the West of double standards, essentially asking: "Why is Scotland's independence vote fine, but Crimea's is not?"
Britain's Foreign Office just sent this little factbox aimed at answering that question.
As we've noted here, Russian officials and media have accused the West of double standards, essentially asking: "Why is Scotland's independence vote fine, but Crimea's is not?"
Britain's Foreign Office just sent this little factbox aimed at answering that question.
11:38
17.3.2014
Watch a Russian state television anchor -- Dmitry Kiselyov, who we profiled here -- describe Russia as "the only country in the world that is realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash."
11:51
17.3.2014
Sergei Aksyonov, the head of Crimea's unrecognized Russian-backed government, says Russia has given the peninsula 15 billion rubles ($400 million) in aid. Aksyonov tweets that this doubles Crimea's budget.
11:53
17.3.2014
One of the Russian cultural figures who "signed" pro-Putin statement on UKR died in 2005: http://t.co/5UfzJHauSS
— Robert Coalson (@CoalsonR) March 17, 2014
12:00
17.3.2014