Russian soldiers take over Crimean airports: minister Calls move ‘armed invasion and occupation’

By Lukas I. Alpert

Reuters

An armed man patrols at the airport in Simferopol, Crimea on Friday.\

 

Russian soldiers have occupied two key airports in Ukraine’s restive pro-Russia region of Crimea, Ukraine’s acting interior minister said Friday. 

Kerry Talks With Russian Foreign Minister: Lavrov reaffirmed respect of the territorial integrity of Ukraine"

 

WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday that Washington would be carefully monitoring a commitment by Moscow to respect Ukraine's territorial sovereignty.

No special treatment for UK over Europe, says Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel has pleaded with Britain to remain a strong voice in the EU but said the country cannot expect special treatment if David Cameron embarks on a renegotiation of Britain's membership terms after a Conservative election victory.

Ukraine's devided society before the crisis

Taking language politics to heart, a member Svoboda, a Ukrainian nationalist political party strong in Western Ukraine, sprays riot police with tear gas in Kyiv, Ukraine on July 4. Nationalists fought with police over a bill that would allow the use of Russian and other minority languages in official settings. Photo: AP/Efrem Lukatsky

LVIV — It’s a sunny summer evening here in Lviv, the café and cobblestones capital of Western Ukraine.

MEANS: U.S. economy on schedule to crash March 4, 2014

Those wild and crazy Mayans put down their marker that the end of the world would occur on Dec. 21, 2012 — about two months from now. There is, of course, some small chance that they might be right. On the other hand, there is a very large probability that the real end of the world will occur around March 4, 2014.