Ukraine Impasse Stirs U.S.-Russia Tensions -- Elise Labott, CNN Foreign Affairs Reporter
Washington (CNN) -- Tensions between the United States and Russia over the crisis in Crimea have exploded into an open row as Russia rejects U.S. diplomatic efforts to solve the impasse.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry postponed a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss American proposals, which Moscow has effectively rejected, on solving the crisis.
The meeting, which Russia said was supposed to happen Monday, would have marked the highest-level contact between the two countries since Russian troops took up positions in Crimea, and would have come ahead of Sunday's potentially explosive vote on whether Crimea should split from Ukraine and join Russia.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Roundup: Opinions on Ukraine From American and Foreign Media -- Voice of America
Klitschko Interview: 'I'd Also Shake Hands with Devil To Save Lives' -- Marc Hujer and Christian Neef, Speigel Online
On The Scene: Elizabeth Arrott in Simferopol, Ukraine -- Voice of America
Today Crimea, tomorrow Estonia? -- William Cook, The Spectator
Putin's Targets: Will eastern Ukraine and northern Kazakhstan be next? -- Peter Eltsov and Klaus Larres, New Republic
The World Needs Russia. Russia Does Not Need Putin. -- Adam Michnik, New Republic
Syrian opposition can learn from Ukraine -- Michel Kilo, Al-Monitor
How to Deal with North Korea -- Doug Bandow, National Interest
Afghanistan's Elections: What Success Would Look Like -- Michael O'Hanlon and Najib Sharifi, National Interest
Will Scotland Go Independent? -- Jonathan Freedland, New York Review Of Books
Venezuela Goes Mad -- Rafael Osio Cabrices, New York Times
Venezuela's 'angry gochos': Why protests continue in western Venezuela -- Sibylla Brodzinsky, Christian Science Monitor
Is China in Al Qaeda’s Crosshairs? -- Rachael Levy, Vocativ
Slavery reparations: Is money the answer? -- inside Story/Al Jazeera
The C.I.A. Torture Cover-Up -- New York Times
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