Interesting watching the mainstream news articles right now ... I hope that Russia isn't actually trying to grab back a piece of Ukraine.  But that's definitely why the price has spiked.  Russian stock market dropped 10% today, currency traders on Moscow streets are running out of foreign currency, and gold is up 1.4%.  Every time there's a world crisis, Bitcoin goes up by 10-20%.  Cyprus, Syria, now Ukraine.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/176d4052-a2c0-11e3-9685-00144feab7de.html#axzz2uwWLExO9