Power blackouts in Crimea orchestrated by anti-Russian saboteurs are stirring discontent a year and a half after Moscow seized the peninsula from Ukraine, threatening to chip away at the pro-Kremlin euphoria many Crimeans felt after annexation, (...)
Lamwakers in Crimea on Monday declared the Black
Sea peninsula's independence from Ukraine and officially asked Russia
for accession, dpa quoted the parliament as saying.
85 of the nominally 99 deputies backed the declaration
in an extraordinary (...)
Voting got underway in Crimea on Sunday in a referendum that will decide whether the Black Sea peninsula leaves Ukraine and becomes part of Russia, Reuters reported.
At a high school in the Crimean regional capital of Simferopol, dozens of people (...)
Crimea's pro-Russian new prime minister
Saturday asked Moscow for help in the simmering conflict on the Black
Sea peninsula, while declaring he was in control of all law
enforcement agencies, according to dpa.
"I ask President Vladimir Putin for (...)
