On The Scene: Elizabeth Arrott in Crimea

Russians are officially on the streets of Simferopol.  Not just the soldiers-without-insignia who took over the local parliament last month, but now diplomats from Moscow.   While observers from the world’s largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization are turned back at the Crimean border, Russian diplomat Sergei Ordzhonikidze defends the Crimean vote on whether to join Russia.   "I am here as an observer,” he said. "This is a dominating principle of...

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