We are now closing the live blog for today. Here is one last Crimea-related update from RFE/Rl's news desk before we go. Don't forget that, until we resume again tomorrow, you can follow all our latest Ukraine news reports here.
Crimea's prosecutors are seeking more than four years in prison for a man accused of attacking a Ukrainian security officer in Kyiv during the February 2014 protests in Kyiv against pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Natalya Poklonskaya, prosecutor-general of the Ukrainian territory that was annexed by Russia last year, asked a court in Simferopol to convict local resident Oleksandr Kostenko and sentence him to four years and three months in prison, her office said on May 14.
Prosecutors on the Black Sea peninsula have charged Kostenko with intentionally inflicting bodily harm on the security officer during the so-called "Euromaidan" protests.
The court is scheduled to hand down its verdict on May 15.
The alleged crime took place more than a month before Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014, which a majority of UN member nations consider illegal.
Some economic info now, from our news desk:
Russia's central bank says it will buy $100 million to $200 million a day in the market to replenish its foreign currency reserves.
The bank made the announcement on May 14 after Russia's currency reserves slumped $120 billion in less than a year to its lowest level since at least 2008.
The reserves started falling in July 2014 as policy makers sought to prop up the ruble weighed down by U.S. and European sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
Last year, Russia spent almost $90 billion of its reserves before abandoning its managed exchange-rate policy in November as falling oil prices exacerbated the ruble's retreat against the dollar.
But the ruble has rebounded more than 20 percent this year amid a jump in oil prices and as a cease-fire agreement in eastern Ukraine reduced the likelihood that sanctions will be deepened.
Based on reporting by dpa and Bloomberg.com
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