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3th century The "Rus" -- the people whose name got tacked on to Russia -- were originally Scandinavian traders and settlers who made their way from the Baltic Sea through the marshes and for=sts of Eastern Europe down toward the fertile riverlands of what's now Ukra=ne. Other Viking adventurers journeyed to Co
ross=the peninsula last March to aid what was ultimately Russia's annexation of =he territory. A pro-Russian insurgency in the east by the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine's industrial hea=tland, is ongoing, despite numerous attempts at ceasefires. K=ev is seeking greater Western military assistan
3th century The "Rus" -- the people whose name got tacked on to Russia -- were originally Scandinavian traders and settlers who made their way from the Baltic Sea through the marshes and forests of Eastern Europe down toward the fertile riverlands of what's now Ukraine. Other Viking adventurers journeyed to C
oss the peninsula last March to aid what was ultimately Russia's annexation of the territory. A pro-Russian insurgency in the east by the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine's industrial heartland, is ongoing, despite numerous attempts at ceasefires. Kiev is seeking greater Western military assistan
ics returned (in some cases more willingly than others) to the fold. By 1939, when Soviet troops invaded the Baltic Republics, from Central Asia to the Baltic Sea, almost all of the far- flung dominions of the Romanovs were once more under a single flag. Only Poland and Finland were able to resist incorporatio
nd lingering problems, such as the open wound in Palestine and the tensions in North Korea, Syria continues to disintegrate, Ukraine is shaken from Donetsk to Crimea, and serious tensions are rising between China and its neighbours in the East and South China Seas. More globally, the most recent report
Entities connected to both the Baltic Sea and Donetsk

Vladimir Putin
PERSON
Crimea
LOCATION
Black Sea
LOCATION
Barack Obama
PERSONLeon Black
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATIONKremlin
ORGANIZATION
United States
LOCATION
Eastern Europe
LOCATION
Middle East
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Angela Merkel
PERSONKharkiv
ORGANIZATION
Adolf Hitler
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Prince Andrew
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Samantha Power
PERSON
European Parliament
ORGANIZATIONthe West Bank
LOCATION