March 3, 2014
G8 SELFIE! Tomorrow's @telegraph #cartoon now! pic.twitter.com/w4kVSqk3Bx
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- Graphic: How Russia Took Over the Ukraine: Published By Business Insider (Graphic from Agence-France Presse). http://goo.gl/fyJi2g
- INFOGRAPHIC: Published By The Guardian, Russia and Ukraine: The Military Imbalance http://goo.gl/6pa8XS
- BBC: Ukraine Crisis in Maps: 1.) Strategic importance, 2.) Crisis Overview, 3.)Kiev's Central Role, 4.) EU and Russia, 5.)Key gas pipelines in Ukraine. http://goo.gl/rbRJ5y
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The Big Chill
Photo Credit: Published in The Guardian: Pro-Russian protesters in Simferopol, the Crimean capital Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, writes in The Guardian: ``This is perhaps the most dangerous point in Europe's history since the end of the cold war. Direct confrontation between Russian and Ukrainian forces will draw in the United States, one way or another. ''
``Even if there is no war, the Crimea crisis is likely to alter fundamentally relations between Russia and the west and lead to changes in the global power balance, with Russia now in open competition with the United States and the European Union in the new eastern Europe. If this happens, a second round of the cold war may ensue as a punishment for leaving many issues unsolved – such as Ukraine's internal cohesion, the special position of Crimea, or the situation of Russian ethnics in the newly independent states; but, above all, leaving unresolved Russia's integration within the Euro-Atlantic community. Russia will no doubt pay a high price for its apparent decision to "defend its own" and "put things right", but others will have to pay their share, too.'' http://goo.gl/Ij6s8v
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