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| Ukraine: Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev in Crimea visit | |
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| Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Crimea - the most senior Russian official to visit since it was annexed from Ukraine. | Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Crimea - the most senior Russian official to visit since it was annexed from Ukraine. |
| Mr Medvedev is visiting Crimea's main city Simferopol, leading a delegation of Russian ministers. | Mr Medvedev is visiting Crimea's main city Simferopol, leading a delegation of Russian ministers. |
| The prime minister tweeted that the Russian government was meeting there to discuss development in the peninsula. | |
| Moscow's annexation of Crimea earlier this month has sparked international condemnation. | Moscow's annexation of Crimea earlier this month has sparked international condemnation. |
| Meanwhile four hours of "frank" talks on Sunday between the US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, ended without a breakthrough. | |
| Mr Kerry told reporters in Paris that the US still considered Russia's takeover of Ukraine's Crimea region to be "illegal and illegitimate". | |
| He said he had stressed that no decision on Ukraine's future could be made without Kiev's involvement. | |
| Earlier Mr Lavrov stressed the need to turn Ukraine into a loose federal state - something Kiev rejects as an attempt to dismember the country. |