Quite an arresting image:
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Ukrainian PM Yatsenyuk announces that only personal items will be allowed to be carried by anyone across the administrative border of the Russian-occupied Crimean region
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry again calling on Russia to ensure that its part of the Minsk agreements are fulfilled:
In Crimea, the alleged corruption in the sale of a business in Simferopol:
President Poroshenko will address the Israeli parliament during his upcoming trip there:
President Poroshenko rejoices in the extension of sanctions against Russia:
An RFE/RL Current Time report on how Odesa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili's United Center -- where people can get virtually any state document within 15 minutes -- doesn't have the funding to run at full capacity. The center is modeled after a very successful one in Tbilisi set up by Saakashvili's government when he was Georgian president.