Eskender Bariyev, a member of the Crimean Tatar Parliament, the Mejlis, told RFE/RL about a Russian police raid on his home this morning. Police also searched the parliament's offices. The officers told Bariyev they were searching for weapons and "illegal literature," he said. They confiscated his computer and materials relating to a planned conference on security in the Black Sea.
Some of the protesting that went on outside the Ukrainian parliament as deputies granted some eastern swaths "special status" and passed an amnesty for less serious crimes, in addition to backing the Association Agreement with the EU.