Pro-Russian self-defense activists stand guard in front of the Crimean Cabinet of the Ministers in Simferopol on March 2, 2014. Armed pro-Russia men who had besieged Crimea’s local parliament mysteriously vanished on March 2 but were still standing guard outside the regional government, as the capital of Ukraine’s restive Black Sea peninsula remained calm but tense.
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