Thousands march in Moscow to protest Crimea vote

[geek tragedy]

7. You misstated that. You meant to write:

I side with the Russians on this, so I don't view it as illegal.

There is no rational argument that what they are doing is legal. The only people making that argument are shills for Putin like rt.com.

Oh, as far as your super-scary link there, the article calls out the stupid fearmongering Putin and his blind loyalists are putting out there:
From the quoted article:

Taras Berezovets, a political scientist and president of Berta Communications in Kiev, thinks Putin is making too much of fairly small group. Until recently, Right Sector had about 500 members. Today it may be 2,000. He said that it’s essentially attached to Svoboda, similar to what the Irish Republican Army was to the political Sinn Fein, at least in structure. But, he said, it’s far less dangerous.

Some people are willing to be William Kristols in service of Putin's imperialism. Very clarifying to see who the actual progressives are and who are just pro-Russia.