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On Thursday, spiritual lead of the Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev appealed to the West to not forget the Crimean Peninsula as it turned its attention to the increasing violence in Eastern Ukraine. “We are concerned that because of Russia’s recent actions, the issue of Russia’s occupation of Crimea has become secondary in light of the potential threat of Russian forces …

On Monday, Refat Chubarov, a leader of the minority Muslim group the Crimean Tatars, said that the new Russian leadership had threatened to prosecute them “for extremism”. Chubarov, who leads the ethnic minority’s assembly, said that the Chief Regional Prosecutor on Sunday gave him an official warning to stop “extremist activities”. During the weekend, hundreds of pro-Ukraine Tatars clashed with …

Acting President of Ukraine Olexander Turchynov on Thursday reinstated military conscription to help deal with the deteriorating security situation in Eastern Ukraine. The move was announced in a decree, and comes after pro-Russian forces seized a regional prosecutor’s office in Donetsk. Ukraine has blamed Russia for organizing the capture of government offices in Eastern Ukraine, a claim the Russian government …

On Wednesday, pro-Russian forces lifted an armed siege on a regional police headquarters in Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine after the chief officer of the station agreed to resign. Meanwhile, The Ukrainian government said that its army is “on full combat alert” against a potential Russian invasion. Rebels already control the regional administration building and the SBU security services building. A …

On Wednesday, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Western leaders should set their differences aside with Russia regarding Ukraine so that they can focus on the growing hazard of Islamic terrorism. In a speech, the Middle East envoy said that expansion of extremist ideology in the region along with in Afghanistan, North Africa and Pakistan “represents the biggest threat …

The US is sending 600 troops to Poland and the Baltics to show its commitment to its NATO allies, as tensions between Ukraine and Russia rise over the Ukrainian crisis. To show its continual support to its allies, 150 soldiers from the US Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade based in Vicenza, Italy will be in Poland by Wednesday, and 450 troops …

On Wednesday, the US warned Russia to stop its “provocation” in Ukraine, reiterating it could slap new sanctions on them. The US State department demanded demobilization and de-escalation from the Russian forces. US Secretary of State John Kerry is on his way to Europe for international talks regarding the Ukrainian crisis. Kerry and the EU will hold a four-way talk …

On Monday, Pro-Russian insurgents covered even more Ukrainian separatist territory, as the new western-backed government in Ukraine looked for a way out of the international crisis by seeking UN help and proposing a referendum. Russia added a perilous tone to the escalation, saying that President Putin had received “a lot” of requests from the Russian-majority rust belt in Ukraine, “to …