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According to the BBC, Refat Chubarov, the head of the Crimean Tatar Majlis (assembly) says he is calling on Tatars to stay at home and not form resistance units. Literally hours remain until catastrophe, he said to the Gazprom-owned Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy. Tatars make up about 12 percent of Crimeas population and have sided with the anti-Yanukovych protesters - now government - in Kiev.
North up on fox now.