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counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Paris to try to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.</span></div>
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Crimea and direct talks between Kiev and Moscow.</span></div>
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Russian-speaking areas in the Kiev government.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The EU earlier offered 11bn euros ($15bn; £9bn) in aid to Ukraine
and froze the assets of 18 Ukrainians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the package
of loans and grants over the next couple of years was "designed to assist
a committed, inclusive and reforms-oriented government" in Kiev.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ukraine's finance ministry has predicted it needs $35bn to rescue
its economy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In other developments in Ukraine: </span></div>
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     national flag is once again flying over the administrative headquarters in
     Donetsk, replacing the Russian flag hoisted there five days ago. The
     building was evacuated after an apparent bomb threat</span></li>
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     Crimea, pro-Russian demonstrators have turned away families bringing food
     and supplies to Ukrainian troops refusing to surrender their bases</span></li>
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     forces have seized two Ukrainian missile-defence sites in Crimea,
     according to unconfirmed reports</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Paris gathering is being seen above all as a chance to test the
waters for a dialogue about Ukraine, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent
Bridget Kendall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Russians had already
failed to appear at one meeting with the Ukrainians in Paris so he was
"not optimistic" of making progress later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"If we cannot make progress on that course there will be costs
and consequences," he said, in reference to a threat of sanctions by the
US and EU.</span></div>
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believed to be Russian servicemen are in control of Ukrainian military bases in
Crimea</span> </span></a></div>
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<span style="width: 624px;">Mourners at Kiev's Independence Square remember the 88 protesters who died in clashes with police</span></div>
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<span style="width: 624px;">Donetsk's regional government headquarters was emptied of pro-Russian activists</span>

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nations, accusing them of setting a bad example by supporting protesters - some
of whom now make up the government - in their "armed coup d'etat".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Russian FM Sergei Lavrov accused protesters of conducting an
"armed coup-d'etat"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This agreement included constitutional reform that would fully take
into account the interests of all regions of Ukraine - giving the
Russian-speaking areas in the east more influence and greater legal protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This, says the BBC's Richard Galpin in Moscow, would give Russia
more leverage over the future direction of Ukraine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Moscow has strongly condemned the recent change of government in
Ukraine, which came after months of street protests, more than 90 deaths and
the flight of President Yanukovych, a Russian ally.</span></div>
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southern autonomous region of Crimea.</span></div>
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strategic points on Saturday.</span></div>
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installations, while two Ukrainian warships are reported to be blocked by a
Russian ship in Sevastopol's harbour.</span></div>
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Ukraine crisis: Diplomacy gathers pace ahead of talks

US Secretary of State John Kerry has begun talks with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Paris to try to resolve the crisis in U...