MOSCOW, February 28 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday it has ordered its consulate in Crimea to speed up the issuance of passports and citizenship to members of Ukraine’s elite Berkut riot police.
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RIA Novosti: Russie hurries to issue passports for Ukraine’s former riot police
An armed masked man wearing shoulder sleeve insignia of Ukraine's disbanded elite Berkut riot police force speaks with a driver at a checkpoint on a highway that connect Black Sea Crimea peninsula to mainland Ukraine near the city of Armyansk, 150 km north of Simferopol, on February 28, 2014. The sign on the bar reads: 'Fascism Shall Not Pass!' The spiralling tensions in a nation torn between the West and Russia took today a severe new turn when Ukraine's interim president Oleksandr Turchynov accused Russian soldiers and local pro-Kremlin militia of staging raids on Crimea's main airport and another base on the southwest of the peninsula where pro-Moscow sentiments run high. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV
