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ll sample of similar claims or conjec- tures that have made their way into Russian news cov- erage, especially in the wake of Moscow's occupation of Crimea and invasion of eastem Ukraine. They stand as a reminder that under Vladimir Putin, the Russian media environment has been transformed from one ma

ine also zeroed in on Ukraine's sup- posed lack of respect for minority rights, a problem that Moscow had not raised during the administra- tions of Viktor Yanukovych or Leonid Kuchma. Neither Ukrainians nor informed observers in the outside world believed that Ukraine was faced with a civil war. This was entire

a pro-Russian government was toppled and Ukraine was slipping from his grasp. After the Olympics ended, he acted swiftly, sending his forces into Crimea. It was a blunder. In taking over Crimea, Putin has lost Ukraine. Since 1991, Russia has influenced Ukraine through pro-Russian politicians who we

ed by Moscow to listen to its diktats. That path is now blocked. Princeton professor Stephen Kotkin points out that in the last elections, in 2010, Viktor Yanukovych, representing to some extent the pro- Russian forces, won Crimea by nearly a million votes, which is why he won the election overall. In other words

42oi Russia The Trump administration "water[edl down the toughest penalties the U.S. had imposed on Russian entities" after its 2014 annexation of Crimea.! 21 1 Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Intermediate-fieNuclear Forces Treaty, citing alleged Russian non-compliance 42;31 and supported a potent

by the press.[55515561 One of Trump's campaign managers, Paul Manafort, worked from December 2004 to February 2010 to ..help pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovych win the Ukrainian presidency Other Trump associates, including former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and political consultant Roger Stone,

r= 2014. That sparked a spiraling crisis: a fledgling interim government in Kiev looked on as Russia first seized and t=en annexed the territory of Crimea, a strategic Black Sea peninsula. A pro-Rus=ian separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, believed to have direct backing f=om Moscow, has led to th

n in Europe and especially with the Ukraine where for the past year, Ukraine has been plunged into chaos. Mass protests against pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych led to his ouster in Februar= 2014. That sparked a spiraling crisis: a fledgling interim government in Kiev looked on as Russia first seized and t=e

ry 2014. That sparked a spiraling crisis: a fledgling interim government in Kiev looked on as Russia first seized and then annexed the territory of Crimea, a strategic Black Sea peninsula. A pro- Russian separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine, believed to have direct backing from Moscow, has led to t

raine became Ukraine 'shun Maroon March 9, 2015 For the past year, Ukraine has been plunged into chaos. Mass protests against pro- Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych led to his ouster in February 2014. That sparked a spiraling crisis: a fledgling interim government in Kiev looked on as Russia first seized and th

s true legacy. On Friday, Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations, Yuriy Sergeyev, said that Russian troops had taken control of two airports in Crimea and that the Russian Navy was blocking the Ukrainian Coast Guard. Moscow denied that it had sent troops in. But the fact is, Russia was outrageous

en it put 150,000 troops on high alert on Wednesday for war games near Ukraine's border and then on Friday allowed the deposed Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, to give a news conference when he showed up in the Russian city Rostov-on-Don. The situation has now gone from chaos to the verge of military con

government is seen as without legitimacy by Moscow the door is open for playing the card of Russian majorities in the east of the country and/or in Crimea. It could be done in several ways. Rumours about suppression of Russians could be spread—there have already been such rumours on the internet, but

planned "Eurasian Union" as the core of a new Russian mini-empire. Turns out, however, Ukraine had other ideas. It overthrew Moscow's man in Kiev, Viktor Yanukovych, and turned to the West. But the West — the E.U. and America — had no idea what to do. Russia does. Moscow denounces the overthrow as the illegal w

er of the century. —VLADIMIR PUTIN I THE FIRST INVASION of a European country since the end of the Cold War, Russian military forces moved into the Crimea and other parts of eastern Ukraine in February and March 2014. Unlike with previous Russian troop movements, such as those into Poland, Hungary, Czec

995. Kucherena’s well-known friendship with Putin had evidently not hurt his law practice. His clients had included such well-connected defendants as Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine overthrown in 2014; Grigory Leps, a Russian singer black- listed by the United States for allegedly acting as a money couri