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Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili writes in "The Guardian" that the August 2008 Russia-Georgia war provides lessons for current crisis in Crimea:
The invasions of Ukraine and Georgia bear striking similarities, not only because the pattern of the invader stays the same, but also because the two countries share deep historic parallels.
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15.3.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has some more details on the Verkhovna Rada's decision to dissolve the Crimean parliament:
The Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv has voted to dissolve the Crimean Supreme Council, the Ukrainian region's parliament.
An overwhelming majority of 278 lawmakers voted in favor of the measure, with one abstention.
Seventeen legislators did not take part in the vote. Kyiv's Verkhovna Rada debated the issue on March 15 in a special session presided over by acting President and parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov.
Legislators in Kyiv are upset with the Crimean parliament's holding of a referendum on the peninsula on whether to leave Ukraine and join Russia, scheduled for tomorrow.
The Ukrainian government has declared the referendum illegal.
One Ukrainian nationalist leader in Kyiv said the Crimean assembly had to be dissolved in order to discourage a similar separatist movement in eastern Ukrainian cities that are predominantly Russian-speaking. (With reporting by Reuters and Interfax)
An overwhelming majority of 278 lawmakers voted in favor of the measure, with one abstention.
Seventeen legislators did not take part in the vote. Kyiv's Verkhovna Rada debated the issue on March 15 in a special session presided over by acting President and parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov.
Legislators in Kyiv are upset with the Crimean parliament's holding of a referendum on the peninsula on whether to leave Ukraine and join Russia, scheduled for tomorrow.
The Ukrainian government has declared the referendum illegal.
One Ukrainian nationalist leader in Kyiv said the Crimean assembly had to be dissolved in order to discourage a similar separatist movement in eastern Ukrainian cities that are predominantly Russian-speaking. (With reporting by Reuters and Interfax)
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Tweet from Pavel Sheramet: "On the eve of the Crimean referendum":
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15.3.2014
RFE/RL's Russian Service Live Feed of Peace Rally in Moscow:
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15.3.2014
From "The Globe And Mail":
"As Ukrainians brace for Sunday's referendum on Crimea, the country's Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs said the government is preparing for a potential invasion by Russia but he is hoping a diplomatic solution to the crisis can still be found."
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15.3.2014
"For Your Freedom and Ours" Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov at Peace March in Moscow