NATO countries on Friday (28 March) agreed that former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg should be the next secretary general of the military alliance.

Ukraine’s premier said his country was “on the edge of economic and financial bankruptcy”, but will comply with demands for drastic austerity.

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has said discussions on revising the treaty to secure the eurozone's architecture will begin after the May EU elections.

Obama, following his pledge of solidarity with the EU on Ukraine, delivered a 40-minute speech to an audience of some 2,000 at the Palais des Beaux Arts centre in Brussels.

Obama also warned Russia not to test his obligation to defend former Soviet and former Communist countries who joined NATO.

The G7 club of wealthy nations has cancelled a summit with Russia over its annexation of Crimea, but emerging economies have protested against its exclusion from a G20 meeting.

A communiquй threatens to intensify actions if Russia continues to escalate this situation, including sanctions 'that will have an increasingly significant impact on the Russian economy'.

The stock of Russian international investments in London is sizeable at Ј27bn, but it only accounts for 0.5% of total European international assets invested in London.

A pro-Russian enclave of Moldova could be Moscow's next target after Crimea, NATO warns.

Poland on Thursday said it would speed up the process for choosing a national antimissile system amid worries about Russia's actions in Ukraine.

The head of NATO says Russia's incursion into Ukraine may affect the prospects for nuclear arms control in Europe, which already faced political challenges.

The flexing of muscles continues as Ukraine joins two weeks of multinational military exercises involving troops from 12 NATO member and partner nations.

Days after being mocked in Moscow over sanctions Barack Obama targets Russian oligarchs and officials close to Vladimir Putin and promises further economic pain if the Russian president makes further incursions into Ukraine.

EU leaders have reacted to Russia's annexation of Crimea by blacklisting 12 new names and by agreeing to send EU peace monitors if need be.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced the launch of an Alliance-wide public debate involving young leaders, lawmakers and policy experts to come up with ideas to strengthen the Alliance’s transatlantic bond.

EU countries are heading into a summit on Thursday (20 March) nowhere near a consensus over what to do about Russia's annexation of Crimea and on how far economic sanctions should go.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed the crisis in Ukraine and preparations for this September’s NATO summit in Wales in talks with senior United States government officials in Washington.

Vladimir Putin on 18 March signed a treaty making Ukraine’s Crimea region part of Russia, shortly before the Russia-Ukraine confrontation claimed its first casualty.

Atlas Vision is canceled. But Rapid Trident is still a go.

NATO Secretary General discussed the so-called referendum in Ukraine’s Autonomous Republic of Crimea, as well as the Alliance’s plan to intensify the NATO-Ukraine partnership with Ukraine’s Acting Foreign Minister.

A referendum in favour of a re-union of Crimea with Russia is denounced by the West, despite being passed by 96.6 per cen

With Crimea breakaway vote expected on Sunday, Ukraine bolsters its defences with the emergency call-up of a 60,000-strong national guard force, as deadly clashes break out in Donetsk.

The United States should respond to the Russian invasion of Crimea by restarting a missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland that President Barack Obama canceled in 2009, said Sen. John McCain.

The EU agreed on a framework for its first sanctions on Russia since the Cold War, a stronger response to the Ukraine crisis than many expected, and a mark of solidarity with Washington in the drive to make Moscow pay for seizing Crimea.

On Monday NATO said it would deploy Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) reconnaissance aircraft to overfly Poland and Romania to monitor the Ukrainian crisis.

It is vital that Britain is not seen to act unilaterally over Crimea, but in concert with our European allies.

Oleksander Turchynov, the acting president of Ukraine, says his country will not be provoked in to war by Russian military incursions and brands referendum on region's future 'a sham'.

NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow discussed the advantages of cooperation and partnership and the crisis in Ukraine with a delegation of Moldovan lawmakers.

Russian Defence Ministry sources are warning that New START arms control inspections could become a casualty of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

Western nations on Tuesday pressed ahead with plans to impose sanctions on Russia.

He singled out Germany ahead of a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel to Poland on Wednesday.

NATO is to deploy reconnaissance planes in Poland and Romania to monitor the Ukrainian crisis.

“What we’ve seen is the president mobilizing the international community in support of Ukraine to isolate Russia for its actions in Ukraine, and to reassure our allies and partners,” Blinken said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Tensions continue to mount as Barack Obama calls Balkan and Western leaders, while warning shots turn back European observers trying to enter Crimea.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told on 6 March 2014 that “in these difficult moments, NATO stands by Ukraine.

America will also deploy 12 F-16 fighters to Poland next week as part of a military training exercise expanded in response to the Russian incursion in Ukraine.

President of the European Central Bank (ECB) says impact of the Ukranian crisis on the energy market, while minimal in the short term, could escalate.

President Barack Obama holds hour-long phone call with Vladimir Putin in attempt to defuse Ukraine crisis but without an apparent breakthrough.

MPs in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea region said it should become part of Russia as EU leaders arrived for an emergency summit in Brussels on Thursday.

The North Atlantic Council (NAC) held a joint informal meeting with counterparts from the European Union’s Political and Security Committee (PSC) at ambassadorial level on Wednesday (5 March 2014) to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

The North Atlantic Council has met at Poland’s request to hold consultations within the framework of Article 4 of the Washington Treaty.

NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen has shown sympathy for Polish and Baltic states’ fears of Russia’s aggressive posture in Ukraine and beyond.

We undertake to pursue and intensify our rigorous and on-going assessment of the implications of this crisis for Alliance security, in close coordination and consultation.

The North Atlantic Council, which includes the ambassadors of all 28 NATO Allies, will meet on Tuesday 4 March, following a request by Poland under article 4 of NATO's founding Washington Treaty.

Stock markets fall as rouble crashes to all-time low against dollar and euro, while oil prices jump.

Russian President has reportedly ordered an end to army drills in western Russia.

The allied countries under NATO command have condemned Russia’s military occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea, as world leaders threaten to oust Moscow from the G8 economic club.

EU foreign ministers have threatened asset freezes against Kremlin officials unless Russia pulls back in Ukraine, but left the final decision up to EU leaders on Thursday (6 March).

NATO will hold fresh emergency talks on the Ukraine crisis Tuesday, after Poland requested consultations with its allies on the threat it poses under Article 4 of the alliance's founding treaty.

NATO Allies will continue to support Ukrainian sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and the right of the Ukrainian people to determine

Today we will discuss their implications, for European peace and security, and for NATOs’ relationship with Russia.

Thousands of Ukrainian troops put on combat alert as UK calls urgent meeting of UN Security Council.

Ukraine’s embassy to the EU has detailed Russian military movements in Crimea, saying operations to seize control began one week ago.

Russian troops and gunmen in unmarked uniforms fan out across Crimea, seizing two airports in an apparent bid to assert dominance over the region. President Obama warns Russia there would be “costs for any military intervention.”

Mr Putin is discovering that global finance is more frightened of the US Securities and Exchange Commission than Russian T90 tanks.

This is a strategic power struggle between Russia and the West about influence along the entirety of Moscow’s western and southern borders.

Why action -- not activity -- is the only way to put the brakes on Moscow.

The fall of the Ukrainian government and its replacement with one that appears to be oriented toward the West represents a major defeat for the Russian Federation.

The two were seeking to hammer out the framework of a deal to reduce tensions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and US President Barack Obama stressed the Alliance’s strong commitment to collective defence during talks in Brussels on Wednesday (26 March 2014).

Investors are withdrawing money at a rapidly increasing rate amid escalating sanctions from the West.

Fifty-six former U.S. government officials and foreign policy experts have signed a bipartisan letter to President Barack Obama, urging a decisive response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

European diplomats are drawing up plans to punish Vladimir Putin for pushing the crisis to the next level.

As Dmitri Trenin from Carnegie Moscow says, we are already in a new Cold War. The last 20 years were merely a truce.

The West has threatened visa bans and an asset freeze on individuals unless Russia steps back from the brink on the annexation of Crimea.

US President Barack Obama says that if Russia continues its intervention in Ukraine, the United States and other countries will be "forced to apply a cost" to Moscow.

Mr. Yatsenyuk said “Those who guaranteed that this aggression will not take place must from the one side pull out troops and from the other side must defend our independent, sovereign state.”

NATO ambassadors held emergency session on Sunday to discuss Crimea.

The Obama administration is working around the clock to come up with ways to punish Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine. But will any of them work?