Eurasia

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a diploma recognizing the Republic of Crimea as a sovereign and independent State, a day after the Crimean voted to secede from Ukraine.

Turkey could close the Bosphorus for Russian ships, if there is violence against Crimean Tatars, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan.

EU is “forced” to use the enlargement policy towards Ukraine, Commissioner Stefan Füle said on Tuesday. Füle said that the block should use ” its strongest instrument ” if it wants to deal with ” this part of Eastern Europe that have affected recent events . “

Minister of Foreign Affairs of France said that the leaders of the Group of Eight world powers have suspended the participation of Russia in the club as tensions

  Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned Sunday that the crisis in Ukraine could affect latent conflicts in the Eurasian region that people in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea went to the polls to decide whether or not to secede from the Ukraine.

The United States Sunday strongly rejected a vote on breaking Crimea with Ukraine, and called Russian actions in the crisis “dangerous and destabilizing.”

Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev officially approved the partial mobilization of 40,000 reservists.

France on Friday urged Algerian authorities to respect the fundamental freedoms and rights to peaceful marches and expression after preventing a manifestation of opposition before the presidential elections.

The trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan held for creating designs for the expansion of relations in the political, economic and cultural wrapped by issuing a joint statement in the eastern

The European Union will not recognize the outcome of the referendum of Crimea, senior EU officials said on Sunday, calling the vote illegal and indicating that the block will respond.