{"id":13425,"date":"2014-03-17T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2014-03-17T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:20:38","slug":"crimea-referendum-follows-international-law-un-charter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13425","title":{"rendered":"Putin’s popularity soars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"charterun\"<\/a>Russian President Vladimir\u00a0Putin’s popularity has soared after the historic\u00a0referendum in Crimea.<\/p>\n

Putin spoke to Barack Obama on the phone, after the overwhelming majority of Crimeans expressed their willingness to join Russia.<\/p>\n

As Putin spoke about the referendum, he emphasised “the precedent set by Kosovo, among other things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The referendum was fully in line with international standards, its results should be recognised both in Ukraine and western countries, Austrian member of the European Parliament Johann Stadler said at the final press-conference of international observers on Sunday.<\/p>\n

With a record-breaking turnout of over 80 percent, according to preliminary results, over 95 percent of the Crimean population said ‘yes’ to the reunion of the republic with Russia. International observers have not reported any violations or anything resembling any kind of pressure during the vote.<\/p>\n

However, Obama said the Unites States and the \u201cinternational community\u201d will “never recognize” the results of the referendum \u201cadministered under threats of violence and intimidation,\u201d according to White House spokesman.<\/p>\n

Obama \u201cemphasized that Russia’s actions were in violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity\u201d and that the US in coordination with its European partners is \u201cprepared to impose additional costs on Russia,\u201d the White House added.<\/p>\n

The Republic of Crimea has addressed the UN seeking recognition as a sovereign state and called on Russia to integrate it into the Russian Federation. 96.77 percent of the Crimean population voted \u2018for\u2019 the integration in a referendum in the final outcome.<\/p>\n

“The Republic of Crimea intends to build its relations with other states on the basis of equality, peace, mutual neighborly cooperation, and other generally agreed principles of political, economic and cultural cooperation between states.”<\/p>\n

On March 30 Crimea will switch to the Moscow Standard Time under a resolution passed by the Crimean parliament at an extraordinary session on Monday a day after the residents overwhelmingly voted to join Russia.<\/p>\n

“To establish across the Republic of Crimea the time standard in accordance with the third time zone with the time change at 2 pm on March 30, 2014, by moving the clock two hours forward,” the resolution says.<\/p>\n

Source: RT\/Voice of Russia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian President Vladimir\u00a0Putin’s popularity has soared after the historic\u00a0referendum in Crimea. Putin spoke to Barack Obama on the phone, after the overwhelming majority of Crimeans expressed their willingness to join Russia. As Putin spoke about the referendum, he emphasised “the precedent set by Kosovo, among other things.\u201d The referendum was fully in line with international … Continue reading “Putin’s popularity soars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[8664,8243,8663],"class_list":["post-13425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-crimea-referendum","tag-international-law","tag-un-charter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/charterun.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13425"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13446,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions\/13446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}