10:46
21.3.2014
Visa and MasterCard have blocked transactions handled by sanction-hit Russian banks.
Visa и MasterCard заблокировали операции ряда российских банков #новости #крым http://t.co/BHVBloUYBN
— Радио Свобода (@SvobodaRadio) March 21, 2014
11:01
21.3.2014
Putin says Russia won't be responding to US sanctions, but looks like they're going to ban foreign medical equipment http://t.co/g7yG2e9qL5
— max seddon (@maxseddon) March 21, 2014
11:09
21.3.2014
Agency reports via our news desk:
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow will refrain from imposing further retaliatory sanctions against Washington, one day after the United States introduced visa bans and asset freezes against Russians. The Russian Foreign Ministry released its own list on Thursday of nine Americans banned from entering Russia, including Senator John McCain, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House speaker John Boehner. Putin also said Friday in a meeting of his Security Council that Moscow will not introduce a visa regime for Ukrainians wanting to enter Russia. He said imposing visa regulations against Ukrainians would cause "millions of innocent Ukrainians" to suffer.
11:12
21.3.2014
Here's a very dubious Russian report alleging that Yatsenyuk is in talks with Poland to hand three Western Ukrainian regions to Warsaw by year's end. Without even a referendum.
11:14
21.3.2014
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told VOA that he hopes Russia's actions in Ukraine don't adversely affect important international issues like Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan.
11:25
21.3.2014
Russian Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko in televised remarks after Russia's upper house of parliament ratified the treaty making Ukraine's Crimea part of Russia:
"We are not just witnesses to, but participants in, the historic events of recent days. And we, with a sense of dignity, responsibility, and patriotism, have also fulfilled our historic mission."
11:27
21.3.2014
Today is 22nd anniv of sovereignty referendum in Tatarstan (62% in favor of sovereignty). Not all referendums equal: http://t.co/tnjLtzWKNq
— Robert Coalson (@CoalsonR) March 21, 2014
11:30
21.3.2014
What obligations does #Russia have as an occupying power in #Crimea, #Ukraine? - Q&A from @HRW http://t.co/aWYWxnleEs pic.twitter.com/YrUqt5ovJV
— Andrew Stroehlein (@astroehlein) March 21, 2014
11:34
21.3.2014
Bit of perspective from our own Robert Coalson...
"Russia's Const Court ruled the referendum's wording was unconstitutional, saying it implied altering Russian Federation's state structure."
— Robert Coalson (@CoalsonR) March 21, 2014
11:48
21.3.2014
Via Russian and international agencies, Medvedev has upped Kyiv's ante:
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Ukraine owes Russia a total of $16 billion. Medvedev, in a meeting on Friday, told President Vladimir Putin that Ukraine should pay back $11 billion to Russia because an agreement under which Russia provided cheap gas in exchange for the lease of the Sevastopol naval base in Crimea was "subject to denunciation."