"@russian_market: G-8 without Russia pic.twitter.com/lAdP6TLAzv"
— Sewe Saldanha (@ClanSewe) April 1, 2014
. @RFERL's Moldovan Service checked w Moldovan authorities and this report is not true. No plans for Putin to come to Moldova.
— Robert Coalson (@CoalsonR) April 1, 2014
According to Dzhemilev, the insufficient pressure on Moscow over the annexation of Crimea might lead to bloodshed on the peninsula and Ukrainians' "rightful" demand to regain the status of a nuclear power.
Dzhemilev, a prominent former Soviet dissident, reiterated that Crimean Tatars see their future with Ukraine only.
The session was organized by Lithuania. Lithuania's deputy UN ambassador, Rita Kazragiene, said the meeting gave members their first opportunity to hear the Crimean Tatars' concerns about media impartiality and minority rights.
Russia boycotted the council session.
would love to have seen pete postlethwaite play Lavrov, philip seymour hoffman as churkin and nigel farage as medvedev @shaunwalker7
— Tom Miles (@tgemiles) April 1, 2014
@shaunwalker7 with Liz Hurley as Tymoshenko and Steven Seagal as Yarosh
— max seddon (@maxseddon) April 1, 2014
@shaunwalker7 @maxseddon I would think Depardieu would be more suited to playing one of the Maidan barricades if he simply lies down!
— Kevin Stewart (@KS66SCO) April 1, 2014
@maxseddon @shaunwalker7 Hilary Swank as Matvienko?
— Oliver Bullough (@OliverBullough) April 1, 2014
@maxseddon @shaunwalker7 Poroshenko played by Robbie Coltrane.
— Alexander Smith (@AlexMurraySmith) April 1, 2014
@AlexMurraySmith @shaunwalker7 @maxseddon Ooh this is fun. Hillary Swank plays plucky Crimean prosecutor fighting rampant "nyash-myash."
— pete_leonard (@pete_leonard) April 1, 2014
Interfax: Russian Ministry of Culture ready to fund film that would tell "the truth about Maidan"...
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) April 1, 2014
He was speaking ahead of a NATO foreign ministers' meeting to discuss Ukraine.
The NATO meeting in Brussels is the first since Russia's military occupation and annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
Russia in the past month massed tens of thousands of troops on its border with Ukraine, raising concerns that after annexing Crimea it might invade other parts of Ukraine.
On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it was withdrawing a battalion that had ended drills near the border.
Reading Steinmeier's latest statements, hard not to conclude that he wants to scale down the Eastern Partnership and make it less ambitious.
— Uli Speck (@uli_speck) April 1, 2014
@JohnKerry en route to Brussels for @NATO meeting. Focus expected to be on #UnitedforUkraine
— Jen Psaki (@statedeptspox) April 1, 2014
The drills would be conducted in southern and western Ukraine at some point between May and November.
Meanwhile, Russia's Federation Council voted Tuesday to terminate agreements with Ukraine on the Black Sea Fleet.
The Council voted unanimously Tuesday to annul the agreements. On Monday, Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma also unanimously approved the bill.
In 2010, Russia and Ukraine agreed to extend the lease of the fleet's base in the city of Sevastopol until 2042, under a deal that included an annual rent of $98 million and price discounts for Russian natural gas imports to Ukraine.