CNN covers Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s address at the Atlantic Council:

“We need to start a nationwide dialogue on the autonomy of Crimea,” Yatsenyuk said at an Atlantic Council speech in Washington, D.C..

But he added that there are no legal grounds for Sunday’s referendum — a referendum that he and the West see as a rogue act backed by pro-Russian thugs and a show of brute and unprovoked military force.

“This is an illegitimate, unconstitutional referendum,” Yatsenyuk said, echoing the talking points heard from the corridors of power in London, Brussels and Berlin.

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