@EuromaidanPR 1h

http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/04/12/7022226/?attempt=1

@PaulNiland 2h

Another police station in eastern #Ukraine being attacked. This look like local concerned citizens or military unit? pic.twitter.com/i3XzK80x5G

@AndrijUKR

@EuromaidanPR 4h

The situation is very tense #Lugansk. The city center is blocked, ppl walk around the streets with guns @ukrpravda_news | PR News #Ukraine

‏@jsemeniuk11

@olgatokariuk

@Ukroblogger 4h

#Kramatorsk police dept stormed by #Russian forces; attack on Krasny Lyman PD repelled? MT @NiBeroeva #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/of1lMh0rog

@Belsat_Eng 7h

#Ukraine now: Russian commandos seized police buildings in Krasnoarmiisk, Krasnyi Lyman & Sloviansk – Donetsk region. #russiainvadesukraine

@Ukroblogger

Let people have gun so they can defend themselves!

David Patrikarakos ‏@dpatrikarakos 6h

Militia who pulled guns on me outside #Sloviansk – men and, even more worryingly – teenagers too.

https://www.facebook.com/EuroMaydan/posts/598394333590241

@Ukroblogger

@AndrijUKR

@hugoukr

The Ukrainian ‘Tryzub’ making the word “Freedom”.

I’ve been to Odesa. The sense of Ukrainian identity is not very strong, but the sense of local identity is.

I think will eagerly embrace the “greater Ukraine” idea to keep Putin away.

@AndrijUKR

http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/66669/russia-failed-to-show-good-will-in-informing-about-sea-exercises-lithuanian-pm-201466669/

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/russia-west-trading-places-freedom-of-speech-sanction-eu-dmitry-kiselev-putin

Interview with my great friend and co-author:

http://bastiat.mises.org/2014/04/yuri-maltsev-how-i-defected-to-the-united-states/

This is of course a desperate lie. China did not stand behind Russia in the UN Security Council vote on Crimea, as it had over Syria. It pointedly abstained. Its foreign ministry stated that “China always sticks to the principle of non-interference in any country’s internal affairs and respects the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

. . . .

China is breaking Russia’s control over the gas basins of Central Asia systematically and ruthlessly. Turkmenistan’s gas used to flow North, hostage to prices set by Gazprom. It now flows East. President Xi went in person last September to open the new 1,800 km pipeline to China from the Galkynysh field, the world’s second largest with 26 trillion cubic meters.

It will ultimately supply 65 BCM, equal to half Gazprom’s exports to Europe. Much the same is going on in Kazakhstan, where Chinese companies have taken over much of the energy industry. The politics are poignantly exposed in Wikileaks cables from Central Asia. A British diplomat is cited in a 2010 dispatch describing the “Chinese commercial colonization” of the region, saying Russia was “painfully” watching its energy domination in Central Asia slip away.

Yet more revealing is a cable quoting Cheng Guoping, China’s ambassador to Kazakhstan, warning that Russia and China are on a collision course, and China will not be the one to yield. “In the future, great power relations in Central Asia will be complicated, delicate. The new oil and gas pipelines are breaking Russia’s monopoly in energy exports.”

Mr Cheng not only expressed “a positive view of the US role in the region” but also suggested that NATO should take part as a guest at talks on the Shanghai Cooperation group — allegedly the Sino-Russian answer to EU/NATO — in order to “break the Russian monopoly in the region.” That word “break” again. So there we have it in the raw, what really goes on behind closed doors, so far removed from the pieties of a Moscow-Beijing axis.

http://www.businessinsider.com/lack-of-chinese-support-for-crimea-is-a-big-problem-for-putin-2014-3