normal announcement in the white house briefing room outlining a series of steps to try to punish russia for its move into ukraine, specifically into crimea to hold this referendum yesterday and to make it clear that the united states and the european allies will not recognize this move by the russians in crimea. michelle kosinski is our white house correspondent. christiane christiane amman poor is standing about i. he has listed the president, 11 individuals. the eu plans to target 21 individuals, all of hoom are related to whom they call violating the territorial integrity of ukraine, being involved in this referendum. including the prime minister of
cronies, people close to vladmir putin. they wanted to emphasize that. this is hitting at the heart of russian government and the action that has been taken. some of the people not named on the new executive order included in the prior round of sanctions include the former president and prime minister of ukraine, as well as the acting prime minister of crimea. today, the eu sanctioned individuals as well. 21 of them. in total, the u.s. has sanctioned 11 people. if the u.s. is so much in coordination with the eu, as the cord has continued, why would those lists be so different. officials said that they are very well coordinated and that these lists overlap. with so many governments contributing together with the european union, they had some categories of sanctions that the u.s. hasn t tackled but could. one of those listed, victor
minister of crimea, the controversially appointed prime minister of crimea, that preliminary results will be announced pretty quickly, perhaps an hour after the closing of polls. right here in lenin square in the center of the city you can probably hear a concert is under way celebrating the very predictable results on this referendum. you see a very pro-russian crowd as the crowd swelling down below and now amongst that crowd is our nick paton walsh, who join us now. nick, gives us a sense of what it s like down there. reporter: there is a remarkable scene of celebration here. we re about 40 minutes away from the polls closing and about an hour-plus until we hear those preliminary results. no real doubt as to what they re going to say, that crimea has voted to become part of russia. that s what we anticipate, and
very little could get in the way of that result unless the government decides they don t want it, because frankly we haven t had much of a contest here. there has been a very homogeneous tribe here. we ve simply heard from the pro russian movement saying why the referendum should push crimea into the russian federation. but desite the mixture of russian and crime indian flags,e expecting a rock concert perhaps later on, the prime minister of crimea was asked to come down and make some of the announcements itself, you have to bear in mind that this remarkable victory for the de facto governments at the polls are made possible because of the 2,500 russian troops that according to the crimean defense ministry have swoel sboon crimea at this point. so while this is a clearly well-organized display of public endorsement, the idea of becoming part of the russian
are more diverse than we re showing in a two-color map. there are ukrainian speaking populations inside crimea and eastern ukraine. there s the tatars population. let s pull up the map of crimea. you re right, there s not a black or white narrative or in this case yellow and green narrative. that was a political map. that showed their leanings. are they voting toward russia? many of these people are also ethnic russians and russian speakers. but there are these other divisions. crimea has one. there are these other divisions. crimea in particular has one. crimea has about 2 million people. about 30% of the population are muslim tatars and sympathetic toward the new revolutionary