12:38
16.3.2014
Crimea's pro-Russia leader Sergei Aksyonov told Russia 24 Television that the Crimean Supreme Council (Eds. which the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv dissolved on March 15) will hold a session at 10:00 a.m. on March 17 to adopt the referendum results.
12:32
16.3.2014
Interfax quoting pro-Russia Crimean leader Sergei Askyonov as saying turnout near "45 to 50 percent" throughout the peninsula.
12:16
16.3.2014
Kyiv's Inter Television quoting Refat Chubarov, Crimea's chief mufti and the current head of the Mejlis, as saying Crimean Tatars are boycotting the referendum:
"We Crimean Tatars have never taken part in clown shows and circuses," he says.
"We Crimean Tatars have never taken part in clown shows and circuses," he says.
12:12
16.3.2014
12:06
16.3.2014
RFE/RL Ukraine Service's live video feed from Kharkhiv:
11:52
16.3.2014
Don't forget, our Ukrainian Service is live-blogging the referendum day, too (in Ukrainian).
Крим: «референдум», в якому все вирішено заздалегідь? Наживо - http://t.co/kvkTKGLGAJ pic.twitter.com/Ptny9oySGq
— Радіо Свобода (@radiosvoboda) March 16, 2014
11:50
16.3.2014
Crimean authorities quoted by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service say 30 percent of those eligible have already voted.
Утверждается, что в Крыму 30 процентов уже проголосовали. #референдум #Крым
— Радио Свобода (@SvobodaRadio) March 16, 2014
11:49
16.3.2014
"Sample" #ballot outside polling site. Big #red mark next to #russia option. example or instructions? #Crimea #Крым pic.twitter.com/JMXIPS63G5
— Noah Sneider (@NoahSneider) March 16, 2014
11:01
16.3.2014
Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov has called for a boycott of the "pseudo-referendum," which he describes as "phony from start to finish," according to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. It quotes Turchynov as saying the vote was organized by a "puppet Crimean pseudogovernment under Russian military control" with results "pre-painted in the Kremlin."
10:56
16.3.2014
The Russian state's Voice of Russia says one-third of eligible voters in Crimea had voted by 10 a.m., two hours after polls in the disputed referendum opened.