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Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the Russian parliament to use Russian troops in Ukraine, as the political crisis continues there.

This is the full text of his request, as published on the Russian presidential website:

"In connection with the extraordinary situation that has arisen in the Ukraine, the threat to the lives of citizens of the Russian Federation, our fellow countrymen and the personnel of the military contingent of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation deployed on the territory of the Ukraine (the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea) in accordance with an international agreement, on the basis of Point G Part 1 of Article 101 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation [governing the use of Russian armed forces outside Russian territory], I am submitting to the Council of the Federation [upper house] of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation a request to use the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of the Ukraine until the normalisation of the socio-political situation in that country."

"Reports claimed 2,000 Russian soldiers had landed in the region, while armed militia carrying Russian flags earlier seized the international airport near the Crimean capital Simferopol and a ­military base close to Sevastopol."

IT REMINDS ME OF STALIN I

the dead speak

to us, memorials

for our dead

IT REMINDS ME OF STALIN II 

first Putin

takes Georgia,

then he takes Ukraine

IT REMINDS ME OF STALIN III

Danish frontpages

useful idiots

turning their backs on

"Russiske pansrede mandsskabsvogne på vejene på Krim-halvøen i Ukraine. Russiske troppebevægelser ved den ukrainske landegrænse. Bevæbnede delinger har indtaget selvstyreparlamentet og regeringsbygningen i Simferopol på Krim."

DET MINDER MIG OM STALIN I

de døde taler

til os, mindesmærkerne

for vore dræbte

DET MINDER MIG OM STALIN II

først tager Putin

Georgien, så tager

han Ukraine

DET MINDER MIG OM STALIN III

danske forsider

nyttige idioter

vender ryggen til

(Bjarne Kim Pedersen)