Associated Press: In Ukraine’s Crimea, rival groups face off in violent clashes

Ukrainian activists hold placards reading \"I am Russian but I want to live in Ukraine\" and \"I am an Ukrainian citizen\" during a rally in front of Crimean parliament in Simferopol on February 26, 2014. A man died of a heart attack Wednesday as pro-Russian demonstrators brawled with supporters of Ukraine's new interim authorities in the capital of the Russophone Crimea peninsula Simferopol, the region's health ministry said.Scuffles erupted as thousands of pro-Moscow residents and Muslim Crimean Tatars backing the new leadership in Kiev held competing rallies outside the regional parliament building, where local legislators rejected demands to debate splitting from Kiev. AFP PHOTO/ VASILIY BATANOV