70th anniversary of Tatar deportation

Rim Gilfanov, Al Jazeera: Crimean Tatars – Embrace Russia or leave your homeland

Marta Dyczok, Hromadske Radio: Crimean Tatars’ deportation remembered in Toronto

Anne Applebaum, New Republic: Nationalism is exactly what Ukraine needs

Halya Coynash, Human Rights in Ukraine:

• Russian clamp on Crimean Tartar remembrance
• Outrage: Home of Mustafa Jemiliev searched

United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, report: UN report documents “alarming” deterioration in human rights in eastern Ukraine 

Alexander Motyl –

• Al Jazeera: How Kiev can keep the Donbas
• Blog: Separatists terrorizing, kidnapping, beating citizens in Ukraine

Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes: Separatists may be exaggerating Ukraine referendum turnout by 300%

Taras Kuzio, Financial Times blog: Ukraine’s poor set of choices 

Timothy Snyder, New Republic: The battle in Ukraine means everything 

Paul Goble, blog:

• Thousands of Crimean Tatars mark 70th anniversary of deportation
• Donets a distillation of the worst of Soviet and imperial past, Rufabula writers say
• Ten ways the Crimean anschluss is imposing costs on Russia