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Re:Russia approves use of military in Ukraine by ardit33 on Saturday March 01, 2014 @12:39PM (#7325212)
Big difference. Serbians under Milosevic were committing mass murder and ethnic cleansing (as they had done with Bosnia and Croatia few years earlier), while here, Ukrainians are not kicking people from Crimea out.

This is just a land grab.

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Re:Russia approves use of military in Ukraine by toyg on Saturday March 01, 2014 @01:17PM (#7325373)
>Ukrainians are not kicking people from Crimea out.

Not yet. Still, the first act of the new regime was to revoke language rights from ethnic minorities, i.e. Russians in Crimea. When this sort of thing happens, ethnic cleansing is not far away.

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Re:Russia approves use of military in Ukraine by trycatch on Saturday March 01, 2014 @02:02PM (#7325611)
That's one ridiculous exaggeration. Did you even read the law you are talking about, or you are just repeating somebody else's propaganda? The law was actually criticized by Ukrainian minorities -- by Crimean Tatars [1], by Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine[2], by Congress of Ethnic Communities of Ukraine [3]. But the most important detail -- the law in fact wasn't repealed! Acting president already vetoed its repeal.

[1] http://www.unian.ua/society/669726-progolosovaniy-zakon-pro-...

[2] http://www.vaadua.org/news/zayavlenie-vaada-ukrainy-po-povod...

[3] http://old.kngu.org/kngu%20news%202012/Zayava%20Ch.html

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Re:Russia approves use of military in Ukraine by nadvorny on Sunday March 02, 2014 @05:48AM (#7328656)
This law does not affect Crimea as Autonomous Republic of Crimea has its own constitution, and Russian language is used as an official since 1998.
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