Pro-Russia self-defence units near Crimea Council building
Photo by Anastasia Vlasova
Crimean lawmakers called a March 16 referendum to return Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula to its former Soviet-era master as European Union leaders quarreled over how to tame Russia for its military actions there.
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