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Children wave Russian flags during a mass pro-Russian rally in the center of Sevastopol, on March 8, 2014.

In this Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014 file photo, Egypt s military chief Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi smiles as he speaks to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their talks along with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Moscow, Russia.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at a March 5 news conference on the situation in Ukraine at EC headquarters in Brussels on March 5 With officials in the Ukrainian region of Crimea preparing a referendum on joining the Russian Federation and Russian lawmakers drafting legislation that would enable Moscow to accept Crimea as a new ... (more)

The gradual re-conquest of the old Soviet empire by a former officer of the Soviet Gestapo ought to worry us a lot.

March 16 is C Day. The Crimean parliament -- by 78 votes with eight abstentions -- decided this is the day when Crimean voters will choose between joining the Russian Federation or to remain part of Ukraine as an autonomous region with very strong powers, according to the 1992 constitution.

Vladimir Putin mocked diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine crisis on Friday as Russia threatened to disrupt European gas supplies by cutting off sales to Kiev over its unpaid debts.

Opening statements were set to begin Friday in the court-martial of an Army general accused of sexually assaulting a captain under his command with whom he had a three-year affair.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says Canada will suspend practically all its military relations with Russia because of the crisis in Ukraine.

Crimea's parliament voted on Thursday to join Russia, and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum in 10 days, in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian region that drew a sharp riposte from U.S. President Barack Obama.

The former United States ambassador to the Russian Federation - only eight days out of office - told reporters on Friday that the White House is taking the right steps in responding to the crisis in Ukraine, saying the threats to impose sanctions on Moscow are working to change the situation in the immediate term.

An inside sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church Pro-Putin demonstrators with St. George ribbons hold Russian national flags and posters reading "Crimea is Russian land!" as they gather towards to Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday.

The international pop-reggae star Orisha Sound revives this year's hit single 'World War III' feat.

Pro-Russian supporters wave Russian flags to welcome the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship, the missile cruiser Moskva, entering Sevastopol bay in September 10, 2008.

With officials in the Ukrainian region of Crimea preparing a referendum on joining the Russian Federation and Russian lawmakers drafting legislation that would enable Moscow to accept Crimea as a new subject of Russia, RFE/RL correspondent Robert Coalson discussed the issue of annexation with Adam Roberts, senior research fellow in international ... (more)

For the second time in as many days, the Binghamton Senators have added a defenseman.

Opening statements were set to begin Friday in the court-martial of an Army general accused of sexually assaulting a captain under his command with whom he had a three-year affair.

Armenia can become a member of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2014, chairman of the board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Viktor Khristenko said on March 6, RIA Novosti reported.

Are they hallucinations pecking at the insomnia-afflicted Lodgers, or the gnarled remnants of a darker secret? Survive the night while maintaining the dilapidated cabin and preventing the threadbare sanity of the Lodger from unraveling completely.

In return for the security assurances by the great powers, Ukraine decided to give up what was then the world's third largest nuclear weapons stockpile and acceded to the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked whether President Barack Obama regretted being "dismissive" about Mitt Romney's contention Russia was America's "number one geo-political foe" at a press conference Thursday.