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Biden to visit Poland and Lithuania to discuss steps over Ukrainian crisis

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 The Warsaw Voice Poland, Russia, Ukraine

US Vice President Joe Biden is traveling to Poland and Lithuania this week to show his country’s support for NATO

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Russian occupiers of 1968 and 2014 get a memorial in Prague!

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 The Prague Post Czech Republic, Russia

A monument in Olšany cemetery commemorates Russians who provided ‘fraternal assistance’ in 1968 Czechoslovakia or 2014 Crimea. A memorial to

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Europe 

Slovakia’s presidential elections: Low turnout harms Fico

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico did not get the result he was expecting in the first round of the presidential

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US, EU impose sanctions over Crimea vote

March 17, 2014March 18, 2014 VOANews Ukraine

President Barack Obama has moved to impose sanction against Russian officials the U.S. sees as implicated in Sunday’s Moscow-backed Crimea

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Europe 

Crimean parliament votes in favour of union with Russia

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 Elizabeth Arrott of VOANews Ukraine

Authorities in Ukraine’s separatist Crimean republic say voters have overwhelmingly approved union with Russia in a controversial referendum that has

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Obama: US, EU prepared to penalise Russia for Crimea ballot

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

U.S. President Barack Obama told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Sunday that Washington and its “European partners are prepared to

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Poll: Ruling party wins big in Serbian elections

March 17, 2014March 17, 2014 VOANews Serbia

Serbia’s ruling center-right party has won an outright parliamentary majority in an election that will cement its grip on power.

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US, EU action expected after Crimea referendum

March 16, 2014 Michael Bowman of VOANews Sofia, Ukraine

Voters in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula have cast ballots in a referendum widely expected to endorse joining Russia.  The United States

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Declaring victory, Crimean and Russian officials pledge fast integration

March 16, 2014March 16, 2014 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

With one exit poll showing that 93 per cent of Crimeans voted to join Russia, the peninsula’s pro-Kremlin prime minister

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