Ukraine

BELGRADE - Serbia's view concerning the events in Ukraine is known and unchanged, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated.

The Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe is to send international monitors to Ukraine within 24 hours.

Europe's leading security organization announced Saturday its teams, comprising a total of 100 members, will be stationed in various regions, including south-eastern areas where violence had erupted amid tensions ahead of Crimea's secessionist referendum.

Bulgaria will never recognize Crimea's annexation to Russia, President Rosen Plevneliev vowed.
Speaking in Bulgarian National Television's weekly Panorama program, he made clear that Bulgaria should realize it now has a family, which is the European Union.

Jonuz Musliu, president of the mainly ethnic Albanian town of Bujanovac in southern Serbia, said that ethnic Albanian parts of Serbia should have a right to join Kosovo, now that the ethnically Russian Crimean region had joined Russia.

Gennady Timchenko, included in US list of sanctions over Ukraine, is to build Bulgaria's part of the South Stream.

The Russian official is reported to have a 63% share in Stroytransgaz, the company in charge of Bulgarian sector of the South Stream pipeline project.

Canadian aerospace and rail equipment giant Bombardier plans to build planes in Russia and the sale of USD 3.4B of aircraft will be delayed over events in Crimea.

Canada has joined the US in imposing sanctions against the country after it moved to annex Crimea, Chief Executive Officer Pierre Beaudoin said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the law ratifying the incorporation of Crimea into the Russian Federation.

Russia might take Ukraine to court after Kiev violated the 2010 Kharkiv Pact, says Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev.

In a speech at the Russian Parliament, Medvedev said the losses could be recuperated "out of Ukraine's budget", as he was quoted by Russian website Lenta.ru.

Crimea officially becomes part of Russian Federation

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill making Crimea and Sevastopol officially a part of the Russian Federation.

Earlier on Friday, Ukraine signed the political part of the association agreement with the EU.

Ukraine, EU sign political part of agreement

BRUSSELS -- Representatives of the Ukrainian provisional government on Friday in Brussels signed the association agreement with the European Union.

The agreement was signed by on behalf of Ukraine by acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, officials said.