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Is Crimea gone? Annexation no longer the focus of Ukraine crisis
In diplomacy, like in sales, success often depends on making your adversaries believe they proposed the result you wanted. By that measure, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have closed the sale on annexing Crimea from Ukraine.
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NATO chief recommits to defending Eastern European, Baltic nations
A reinvigorated NATO flexed old Cold War muscles Tuesday as the Atlantic alliance’s chief recommitted to defending Eastern European and Baltic nations rattled by Russia’s military moves and its annexation of Crimea.
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Lawmakers Grill NASA on Russia Crisis, Asteroid Capture Plan
Legislators on Thursday grilled NASA's top official about the possible impact of the Crimea crisis on relations with the Russian space agency, and criticized proposed missions to capture a near-Earth asteroid and mount a manned expedition to Mars.
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Putin calls Obama to discuss situation as Russia positions 40,000 troops along border
The White House said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had called President Barack Obama and expressed a willingness to seek a diplomatic solution to the continuing stand-off over Crimea, offering a first glimmer of a path towards easing tensions caused by the crisis.
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Cranking Up Putin’s Privatized Propaganda Machine
Never heard of the “Crimean Spring?” That’s probably because you haven’t been watching Russian television lately. As troops have occupied Crimea in recent weeks, Russian television has depicted President Vladimir Putin’s annexation as an awakening that saved the region from being overrun by fascists - part of a propaganda effort rivaling the machine that shaped public opinion a generation ago.
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Putin Says Russia Developing Its Own Consumer Credit System
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia is developing its own national credit card system so his countrymen do not have to rely on financing from Western companies. Putin said Thursday that Russia's central bank and the government are exploring a new payment system that he compared to ones that exist inside China and Japan.
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What to Do About Crimea? Nothing.
Everyone agrees that the West should tighten the screws on Russia, but no one is sure why. Russia will never return Crimea to Ukraine; and even if Russia were willing, the West could hardly demand that Crimea be handed back against the will of the Crimeans themselves. It is widely and enthusiastically said that Russia should be punished. But punished for doing what, exactly, and how? The West can’t win this contest, and we shouldn’t try.
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Ukraine fires defense minister who lost Crimea to Russia
Ukraine fired its defense minister Tuesday, a major test of a new government trying to recover from defeat at Russia’s hands in Crimea while attempting to project enough self-confidence to win the people’s trust. Mistakes have been and will be made, Andriy Parubiy, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said in an interview Tuesday, but the new government is not afraid to fix them.
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What the Hell Is Transnistria, and Is Russia About to Invade It?
Now that Crimea has been saved by Vladimir Putin's benevolent decision to legally annex it, observers are trying to figure out what to make of a Russian troop build-up on its border with Ukraine. Of particular note in these discussions has been the republic of Transnistria.
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Group of 8 Leaders Agree to Exclude Putin
The move will at least temporarily end Russia’s two-decade participation in the diplomatic forum, and it was intended as a signal of the West’s condemnation of Russian actions in Crimea.
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The Mafia Ruling Ukraine’s Mobs
Organized crime helped Putin grab Crimea, and may open the way for him to take more of Russian-speaking Ukraine.
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Moscow’s Long, Corrupt Money Trail
One of the individuals on America’s new sanctions list has apparent ties to a group of high-fliers accused by the murdered lawyer Sergei Magnitsky of Russia’s most massive fraud.
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Russia’s Shifting of Border Force Stirs U.S. Worry
The White House cast doubt Friday on the Kremlin’s claims that thousands of troops massing on the border of southeastern Ukraine are merely involved in training exercises, deepening fears that Russian aggression will not end in Crimea.
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This map shows what the loss of Crimea really means for Ukraine
The swift annexation of Crimea from Ukraine by Russia is one of the biggest international incidents of recent years, with global condemnation leading to sanctions and the worrying possibility of armed conflict. It raises an uneasy question: Is Crimea worth it?
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Crimea celebrations as region joins Russia
Thousands of people celebrated in the Crimean capital of Simferopol after the region broke away from Ukraine and was formally accepted into the Russian Federation. Celebrations continued into early Saturday, hours after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, signed a treaty making Crimea part of Russia. Fireworks burst in the sky in Simferopol, as the Crimean prime minister, Sergei Aksenov, addressed the crowds.
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Ukraine signs EU trade pact as Russia finalizes Crimea annexation
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk signed the political elements of a trade pact with the European Union on Friday, even as Russian lawmakers finalized the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region. The signature of the deal in Brussels, Belgium, signals Europe's solidarity with Ukraine
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Vladimir Putin held secret meeting to agree Crimea annexation weeks before referendum
Russia's president insisted that he had no intention of annexing Crimea - but a secret meeting with his 'war council', held over two weeks before the referendum, suggests otherwise
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Ukraine guarantees rights, status of Crimean Tatars
Parliament passes bill granting Crimean Tatars status as national minority, regional indigenous population.
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After Crimea, West plans for Russia military threat
For defense planners in Washington, London and Brussels, the sight of Russian forces pouring into their second neighbor in six years will overturn two decades of strategic assumptions. The result of Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, following its 2008 war with Georgia, could be a modest reversal of years of European defense cuts and a bigger U.S. military presence in the NATO members of central and eastern Europe.
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Ukraine TV CEO Beaten, Forced to Resign by 'Free Speech' Official
Several members of Ukrainian parliament from the Svoboda (Freedom) Party, led by a top member of the nation’s Free Speech Committee, video-taped themselves violently beating Alexsandr Pantelymonov, the CEO of Ukraine’s First National TV company, and forcing him to sign a letter of resignation.
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