A man walks past a poster reading “On March 16 We Vote Or,” in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Crimea’s Parliament said Tuesday that if the public votes to become part of Russia, the peninsula will declare itself independent and propose becoming a Russian state. That could offer a way of de-escalating the standoff between Russia and the West. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)
