UKRAINE-RUSSIA-POLITICS-CRISIS-REFERENDUM

UKRAINE-RUSSIA-POLITICS-CRISIS-REFERENDUM

Pro-Russian Crimeans celebrate in Sevastopol on March 16, 2014 after partial showed that about 95.5 percent of voters in Ukraine’s Crimea region supported union with Russia. Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join former political master Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation amid the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV