According to Gazeta.ru, they unblocked the highway around 3 am, but the Crimean Tatars' cars remain parked off the road near Partenit, and the atmosphere's still tense.

I wanted to catch it on Channel 5 news, but there was nothing at 11 am - a gas explosion in Lviv region (no casualties, just some property damage in a village), and the release of Milinkevich, and that jerk Ahmadinejad. I turned the TV off after that.

I watch TV sporadically, and I'm sure there is some Ukrainian channel that's covering the crisis - it's not 1986 anymore, right?..