Reuters | |Unlike the unmarked masked soldiers who first seized Crimea three weeks ago, Russian paratroopers strolling across a field near the peninsula’s Perevalnoye military base, which they took over on Friday, wore their trademark blue berets and red star cockades.
AP | |France is offering to send warplanes to help provide air patrols over the Baltic states and Poland, officials said Friday, amid growing tensions between the West and Russia and despite a looming big-ticket military deal between Paris and Moscow.
Reuters | |If Europe and the United States isolate Russia, Moscow will look east for new business, energy deals, military contracts and political alliances.
AP | |Ukraine has joined two weeks of multinational military exercises that involve troops from 12 NATO member and partner nations, and demonstrate that cooperation continues between the alliance and the crisis-torn former Soviet republic.
|The United States added Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko to its sanctions list on Thursday, forcing him to sell his near 50 percent stake in the vast oil trading empire he co-founded in order to keep it running.
AFP | |Ukraine was to take a step closer towards the EU on Friday after the European bloc and the US put in place sanctions on Russian figures close to President Vladimir Putin as punishment for Crimea's annexation.
AFP | |Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy broke his silence on Thursday over corruption allegations threatening his chances of a political comeback, comparing his country to a dictatorship as he angrily fought back against a phone-tap scandal.
Reuters | |Russia's lower house of parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a treaty to annex Crimea from Ukraine, leaving just one legal obstacle for the Black Sea peninsula to cross before it is formally absorbed by Moscow.
AFP | |Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu promised his US counterpart Chuck Hagel in a telephone call on Thursday that Moscow would not assault eastern Ukraine.
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