Förvirrat ryskt beteende på Krim i kväll. Chauvinisterna är uppretade och misshandlar journalister:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26492053
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Pro-Russian soldiers are reported to have stormed a Ukrainian military base outside the Crimean city of Sevastopol, before withdrawing soon afterwards.
A BBC correspondent saw two lorries from Russia's Black Sea Fleet outside the gates, surrounded by armed men.
But no shots are believed to have been fired, and the assailants and lorries reportedly left after "negotiations".---
There were two military lorries with Russian number plates outside the gates, surrounded by irregular soldiers and a very hostile crowd of pro-Russian demonstrators, our correspondent adds.
Two journalists who attempted to take photographs were beaten badly.
Hot och vandalism riktat mot krimtatarerna, som håller en så låg profil som möjligt nu för att inte bli skadade eller dödade. Deras ledare uppmanar dem att bojkotta den farsartade "folkomröstningen":
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/crimean-tatars-fret-over-future-in-crimea-under-russian-rule-338743.html
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Already the Tatar’s lives have been made more complicated, with pro-Russia militia targeting and intimidating them. Several homes of Crimean Tatars in Simferopol and the city of Bakhchisaray have reportedly been marked by gouges or painted with a large “X” similar to that used by police under Stalin’s order in 1944 to mark the homes of those to be deported. Some Tatars have found their homes broken into and vehicles damaged.
“In such dark times appear hooliganism, robberies and general destabilization,” Ibraimov says. None of the homes in Ana-Yurt have been tagged with such marks, but at least one wall of a Tatar restaurant in the valley below appeared to have been marked in black paint.
A Crimean Tatar family walks together up the road from the valley to the town of Ana-Yurt, some 20 kilometers from Simferopol.
Eskander Japarov, 40, returned from exile in Russia to Crimea in 1992. He’s made his home in Ana-Yurt, a place he says is “beautiful.” But due to the escalation in violent rhetoric against Tatars and the vandalism, he is afraid to stray too far from his modest village home.
“I don’t go into Simferopol, because I believe these people will attack me,” he said.
Both he and Ibraimov said that they were strongly against Crimea joining Russia, as it would mean “more repression,” and that the referendum was illegal, a sentiment echoed by U.S. President Barack Obama on March 6, who said it “would violate the Ukrainian Constitution and international law.”
Crimean Tatar chairman Refat Chubarov urged residents of the peninsula to boycott the referendum scheduled for March 16 and called the pro-Russia parliament members who voted for separating Crimea from Ukraine “lunatics” who had “lost their minds” and were “fulfilling someone else’s will” in a post on Facebook.
“The Mejlis (parliament) of the Crimean Tatars does not recognize this referendum,” he said.
