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steve2470

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9. more from AFP

Reply to steve2470 (Reply #8)

Sat Mar 1, 2014, 04:12 AM

Mar 2014

"Russia will not leave this request without attention," a source in the Kremlin administration was quoted as saying by all Russia's main news agencies after the plea from the newly-appointed pro-Russia Crimea premier Sergiy Aksyonov. Aksyonov said in an address quoted by local media and broadcast in full by Russian state television: "Taking into account my responsibility for the life and security of citizens, I ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to help in ensuring peace and calm on the territory of Crimea."

http://www.afp.com/en/news/topstories/russia-says-will-not-ignore-crimea-leaders-request-help

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The irony.... blackspade Mar 2014 #18

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Russia says will not ignore Crimea leader's request for help steve2470 Mar 2014 #8