[caption id="attachment_91095" align="alignright" width="180"] Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev chairs a government meeting in the Crimean city of Simferopol, March 31, 2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea on Monday by flying to the region and announcing plans to turn it into a special ...

Berlin, March 29, IRNA -- Chinese President Xi Jinping here Friday called for a political settlement of the Crimean crisis. Speaking at a joint news conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Xi stressed his country?s continued ?support for a political and diplomatic solution? to the Ukrainian conflict. He reiterated that China has ?no ...

[caption id="attachment_90653" align="alignright" width="180"] Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu addresses Russian troops deployed at a military base in Sevastopol, Crimea, on March 24, 2014.[/caption] The events unfolding in the wake of Crimeas secession from Ukraine are playing in favor of Russia, to the dismay of the United States, a commentator ...

Tehran, March 25, IRNA - The US international scholar Paul Pillar believes that the crisis over Crimea could have possible effects on the negotiations on Iran?s nuclear program. A senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, he wrote in an article in the National Interest that:? ...

Russia has imposed sanctions against a number of Canadian officials, lawmakers and public figures in response to Ottawa's bans on Russian authorities over Crimea. This step comes in response to unacceptable actions by the Canadian side which seriously hurt bilateral relations, said Aleksandr Lukashevich, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokesman....

ILNA: Crimeas self-defense forces on Wednesday stormed the Ukrainian navyheadquarters in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, taking possession without resistance a day after Russia signed a treaty with local authorities to annex the region. An Associated Press photographer witnessed several hundred self-defense forces take down the gate and make ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Two people, a self-defense member and a Ukrainian soldier, were killed after snipers opened fire from a partially inhabited building near a military research center in Simferopol. One sniper was reportedly detained, another is on the run. As RT producer Lida Vasilevskaya arrived at the scene, the perimeter of the Ukrainian ...

Irans ambassador to Russia has called for a peaceful settlement of the political crisis in Ukraine, saying unilateral sanctions are not a proper means to address such issues. Mehdi Sanaei pointed to the bans recently imposed by the US and EU against a number of Russian, Crimean and Ukrainian individuals and said unilaterally-imposed sanctions ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The people of Crimea fixed a Soviet-era mistake with the Sundays referendum and the will of the people should not be punished by sanctions, said former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Earlier Crimea was merged with Ukraine under Soviet laws, to be more exact by the (Communist) party's laws, without asking the people, and now ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Monday that his country does not recognize the outcome of a referendum on Crimea. Davutoglu made the remarks during a joint press conference with former chairman of Crimean Tatar National Assembly and deputy of Ukrainian parliament Mustafa Kirimoglu after their talks in the Turkish ...

Crimea has declared independence from Ukraine and formally applied to join Russia, following a referendum in which Crimeans overwhelmingly voted in favor of joining the Russian Federation. The Crimean Supreme Council passed the decree on Monday after all the 85 lawmakers present in the 100-seat assembly voted in support of seceding from Ukraine. The ...

[caption id="attachment_89429" align="alignright" width="180"] Russia has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would invalidate Sunday's referendum in Crimea. In Moscow, demonstrators and military veterans march in support of the Kremlin Saturday; nearby, a large march was held to protest Russia's policies.[/caption] The Russian parliament ...

[caption id="attachment_89760" align="alignright" width="180"] A woman with her face painted in the colours of the Russian national flag waits for the announcement of preliminary results of today's referendum on Lenin Square in the Crimean capital of Simferopol March 16, 2014 (Reuters / Thomas Peter)[/caption] The referendum in Crimea was fully consistent ...

(CNN)-- An overwhelming 96.7% of Crimea residents voted to break off from Ukraine and join Russia, according to final results of a referendum that has put the United States and Russia on the kind of collision course not seen since the end of the Cold War. Moscow strongly backed Sunday's referendum in the Black Sea peninsula where the majority of the ...

TEHRAN, March 17 (MNA) European foreign ministers are expected to unfurl sanctions including visa bans and asset freezes against leading figures in Moscow over Crimea Sunday referendum. Reported by AFP, an overwhelming 95.5 percent of voters on the mostly Russian-speaking peninsula chose to secede from Ukraine, according to partial results ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday that Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia "would never be recognized" by the United States, as he and other top U.S. officials warned Moscow against making further military moves toward southern and eastern Ukraine. The two leaders spoke after ...

(Reuters) - A top Chinese diplomat repeated Beijing's call for calm and restraint in Ukraine on Monday, but ducked comment on a referendum in Crimea after the region's Moscow-backed leaders declared a 96-percent vote in favor of joining Russia. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Li Baodong, speaking to reporters ahead of a visit to Europe by President ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- IT safety experts discovered an American trace in the hacking attacks on the website of the Crimean plebiscite. This comes after Crimea reported a massive wave of hacker attacks on the websites linked to the ongoing referendum, Voice of Russia reported. A new wave of a massive D-Dos attack hit our site at 1 oclock pm last night, the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The upcoming referendum in Crimea is in full conformity with international law and the UN Charter, and its results must become a starting point in decision on the future of the peninsular, the Facebook page of the Russian Foreign Ministry quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of ...

[caption id="attachment_89429" align="alignright" width="240"] Russia has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would invalidate Sunday's referendum in Crimea. In Moscow, demonstrators and military veterans march in support of the Kremlin Saturday; nearby, a large march was held to protest Russia's policies.[/caption] UNITED NATIONS (AP) ...