Mood amid preparations for referendum in Crimea; A day in the life--the Romberg test; Tony Benn dies aged 88; Poetry, Crimea and Russian paganism

Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic:15 years in NATO;Detained Ukrainian journalists released;Russian business week in London

Ukraine will not send soldiers into Crimea; Darwin and birdsong; Why do Russians believe TV propaganda about Ukraine? Protecting freedom on the...

Revolutionary mood in Kharkov, The Suffragette and the Painting; Japan three years after Fukushima; Colorado tax boost from legalising marijuana sales

Sevastopol Russian pressure increasing; International Women'€™s Day, again; Malaysian missing plane; Rossica's 5th Russian Literature Festival in...

In this episode: why is Crimea so important for Russia and how far will Moscow go in it's attempts to acquire the peninsula? Also, "the bystander...

In this episode: the latest from Ukraine and how the West can interfere - if it can... Also, the International Women's Day in Dushanbe, Labour party...

Lithuania examines Russian TV for extremism, One day in Life of Seva,
The differences between Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs, Paralympics open in...

Crimea MPs vote to join Russia
Pussy Riot attacked in Nizhny Novgorod
How to survive in the wine market

Urkraine crisis Paris talks; Jewish pirates of the Caribbean; Kharkov and the Russian "tourists"; Valeri Kachaev’s anti-war protest on Red Square