Lviv - In the city of Lviv, across Ukraine from the crisis gripping Crimea, a group of Tatars fleeing the troubled peninsula disembarks on a train platform looking for security away from Russian forces."I'm scared for my children as long as Russian soldiers a...

Novooleksiyivka - Military observers from the OSCE who were blocked from entering Crimea will make a second attempt to enter the Black Sea peninsula on Friday, a source travelling with them told AFP.The source would not specify exactly where or when the team of 40 obser...

Kiev - Ukraine's far-right Pravy Sektor movement on Friday announced its leader Dmytro Yarosh would make a presidential bid in elections scheduled for May 25.The movement, which took a leading role in the deadly protests that unseated former president Viktor ...

Kiev - After losing control of Crimea, Ukraine's embattled new government is turning to the nation's oligarchs to stamp out the flames of separatism in the mainly Russian-speaking east.The fledgling leadership has appointed tycoons to head up the Donetsk and ...

Kiev - The Ukrainian government is engaging in legal moves that are unenforceable. The government in Crimea, that the Ukraine refuses to recognize, is in control of its own police and security forces backed up by Russian troops based in Crimea.

Kievpetrovsky Port - Ukraine stood in danger of breaking apart Friday after Crimea's parliament unanimously voted to join Russia in a sharp escalation of the worst East-West security crisis since the Cold War.Both Kiev's new Western-backed interim leaders and US President ...

Sevastopol - The parliament of the autonomous Republic of Crimea voted to leave the Ukraine and become part of Russia. A referendum to approve or disapprove the move will be held on March 16.

Kiev - Ukraine's parliament began a procedure to dissolve the regional assembly in Crimea after it asked to join Russia, Ukraine's interim president Oleksandr Turchynov said Thursday.

Simferopol - Two Femen protesters were arrested in Crimea's capital Simferopol on Thursday after staging a topless demonstration against Russia's intervention in Ukraine in front of the regional parliament.One protestor was stopped by police within seconds while an...

Yalta - Russian soldiers may not be in Yalta, but locals are worried about their tourist season as the city on Crimea's Black Sea coast wakes up to the first spring sun amid fears of a possible war between Ukraine and Russia.In the seaside city nestled in the ...

Moscow - Moscow appears to be presenting the West with a fait accompli. The Crimean parliament it controls says it is asking to join Russia.

Simferopol - Pro-Moscow authorities in Crimea on Thursday asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to examine a request for their region to join the Russian Federation, which will be put to a referendum on March 16."The parliament of Crimea has adopted a motion for C...

Simferopol - Is the Cold War back in fashion? Judging by the overwhelming reaction of the media in the past week, one could feel themselves bang in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 60s.

Kiev - A phone call posted on line between Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet and EU policy chief Cathy Ashton suggesting snipers who shot protesters and police may have been hired by the opposition was confirmed as authentic by the Estonian Foreign Ministry.

Donetsk - The interim government in Ukraine appointed two oligarchs to govern large industrial regions in the east. The Maidan protests that helped oust the Yanukovich government were in part directed against the power of rich oligarchs within his regime.

Two days after one of her colleagues criticized Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, RT anchor Liz Wahl resigned on-air, citing the Kremlin-funded network's "whitewashing" of Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions.

Kiev - Along with 18 other countries, Canada is prepared to send military observers to the Ukraine. Prime Minister Harper announced that two military observers already in Europe will immediately deploy to the Ukraine. The monitors will be unarmed.

Tensions between the United States and Russia on Earth will not affect operations on the International Space Station, NASA chief Charlie Bolden said Tuesday.

Simferopol - The more I read about the Crimea crisis the more astonished I become at the often total lack of investigative reporting in many articles. Circumstances are not clarified and important background is not even mentioned let alone analyzed.

Sevastopol - Is it 1938 all over again? Europe can't decide what to do about a power-hungry dictator who only wants a small part of a country with an ethnic Russian minority.