10:21
16.3.2014
Russian financial flight?
Did #Russia just yank $150 Billion from US Govt Bond Mkts? Move is 10X bigger than normal flows @WSJ http://t.co/eKw3rE5JID #Ukraine #Crimea
— Maria Abi-Habib (@Abihabib) March 16, 2014
10:24
16.3.2014
Please don't call it "referendum" -Sham poll/stunt/charade will do fine. PS does it mean Chechen pro-ind votes in 199os were in fact valid?
— Edward Lucas (@edwardlucas) March 16, 2014
10:33
16.3.2014
Locals keen to impress on foreign media how peaceful, calm, and friendly it is in Crimea. "Even little children are voting!"
— max seddon (@maxseddon) March 16, 2014
10:56
16.3.2014
The Russian state's Voice of Russia says one-third of eligible voters in Crimea had voted by 10 a.m., two hours after polls in the disputed referendum opened.
11:01
16.3.2014
Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov has called for a boycott of the "pseudo-referendum," which he describes as "phony from start to finish," according to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. It quotes Turchynov as saying the vote was organized by a "puppet Crimean pseudogovernment under Russian military control" with results "pre-painted in the Kremlin."
11:49
16.3.2014
"Sample" #ballot outside polling site. Big #red mark next to #russia option. example or instructions? #Crimea #Крым pic.twitter.com/JMXIPS63G5
— Noah Sneider (@NoahSneider) March 16, 2014
11:50
16.3.2014
Crimean authorities quoted by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service say 30 percent of those eligible have already voted.
Утверждается, что в Крыму 30 процентов уже проголосовали. #референдум #Крым
— Радио Свобода (@SvobodaRadio) March 16, 2014
11:52
16.3.2014
Don't forget, our Ukrainian Service is live-blogging the referendum day, too (in Ukrainian).
Крим: «референдум», в якому все вирішено заздалегідь? Наживо - http://t.co/kvkTKGLGAJ pic.twitter.com/Ptny9oySGq
— Радіо Свобода (@radiosvoboda) March 16, 2014
12:06
16.3.2014
RFE/RL Ukraine Service's live video feed from Kharkhiv:
12:12
16.3.2014