Dove seguire la crisi. Per la copertura degli eventi giorno per giorno New Eastern Europe è una buona fonte di informazioni, anche se non in tempo reale. Per la versione del Cremlino da non perdere la diretta di RT Russian Television.

Russian television channels, which are widely watched in Crimea, provided propaganda to give cover to what increasingly looks like a well-prepared military takeover. It is happening on the 60th anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's transfer of Crimea from Russia to Ukraine, when both were part of the Soviet Union. Whether Russia's ultimate goal this time is to annex Crimea or simply to gain leverage over Ukraine's new government is unclear.