is the putin regime defending or is it a criminal enterprise hurting russian interests in ukraine. that s the question for me. here s the fourth and final point. yanukovych won a real election in 2010. he won by half a million votes. he won crimea by a million votes. so yanukovych is president of ukraine because of the votes in crimea. now, this is not an attempt to justify, rationalize or approve the kind of aggressive action we ve seen in breaking off crimea. but it fundamentally alters the domestic politics of ukraine and you can t get eastern ukraine alone to elect somebody from eastern ukraine without crimea anymore. we have to take a break. stephen cohen says we re two steps away from a cuban missile crisis. we will try to resolve it when we come back. more with the panel.
what is the mood there? what is the narrative of events? what is the crowd saying over there about what has happened in kiev? reporter: that s a very interesting question because it is so different than it is in kiev. you have many people who are of russian heritage here but a lot of pro-europeans. right behind me you have a demonstration. the russians are very fearful. they were surprised by how quick the events went. now they fear that their culture here is under threat. they fear their language may be under threat. they fear that the russians moig be marginalized. you can seet that on the street. they are demonstrating of a statue of lenin. they have erected a fence around it.
it had the muscle in the region. today ironically iran feels vulnerable because it s seeing the rise of al qaeda, the sunni salafis, the potential comeback of the taliban and it shares many common interests with the united states. it s also at a point that it has enough technologically in terms of a weapon that it feels confident in brokering. it s just a matter of saying, whether they have the incentive to develop a weapon, if they wanted to turn around and make it they could. the question is can they be stopped from wanting to do it? i think they actually feel that they are at that turning point. i often say that iranians want to get back into their traditional place in the world. if you want to understand persia nationalism think of your most chauvinistic texan and add 5,000 years and you begin to see it s not just the kind of regional
now, let s go to cnn in the eastern russian dominated part of ukraine. this is where former president yanukovych is believed to be after fleeing the capitol in kiev. is yanukovych there? and what is the mood where you are? reporter: that is a very good question. no one knows where yanukovych is. there were rumors that he apparently came here after leaving kiev. and then others said he apparently tried to get on a flight from the eastern city and fly to russia. that was actually confirmed by customs officials. they say the plane wasn t allowed to take off because it didn t have the proper documentation. fl are rumors flying around as to where he might be. the new government in place says they simply have absolutely no idea where he is.
china and shipped via dhl, but it is certainly the bright side of globalization. the correct answer to our gps challenge question is c, while most of the camps holding japanese-americans were emptied by the end of world war ii executive order 9066 was not officially rescinded until 1976 when president ford issued a proclamation declaring that the evacuation had been wrong. in 1988, president reagan signed the civil liberties act which awarded $20,000 to each of the survivors of the camp for their hardship and loss of property. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield. these store es are topping our news this hour. it was a huge reveal on the cover of sports illustrated. basketball player jason collins announcing he is gay. we have breaking news about his