While Russian officials ... thrown-together referendum and then be annexed into Russia. And, oh, presto, now they’re part of sovereign Russian territory.” In fact, U.S. government officials ...

Meanwhile, a small pro-Russian party ... s independence in 1993, only one referendum – on EU accession in 2003 – has cleared this threshold. If successful, the government and parliament ...

a Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday. "Obviously, there will not be a long pause between the announcement of the referendum results and the procedure of legal formalization of these decisions," Oleg ...