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te between Ukraine and Russia as well as keeping Kiev weak and unstable. - But there has been a cost: Sanctions are crushing the Russian economy and Crimea has become a giant money pit for Putin to pour rubles into. A complete economic mess. - However, do not exclude possibility of more violence in Ukra

--- Conflict in Ukraine: is it all over but for the shooting? Ukraine Lines of Withdrawal - Moscow got what it wanted: securing the naval port in Sevastopol and creating a buffer state between Ukraine and Russia as well as keeping Kiev weak and unstable. - But there has been a cost: Sanctions are crushin

Terje Rod-Larsen Subject: March 18 update Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:34:59 +0000 18 March 2014 Article 1. Tablet Magazine While West Focuses on Crimea, Russia Continues To Make Trouble in the Middle East Josh Cohen Article 2. NYT The Unlikely Road to War Roger Cohen Article 3. Al Monitor Ir

he fingers the hand-engraved Browning pistol that was once his father's. EFTA00717213 A plot is hatched. The Russian defense minister is to visit Sevastopol with his wife to celebrate the wise choice of the Crimean people and speak of the Russia's civilizing influence over this beautiful but backward re

hipyard Targeted by Missile Strikes in Sevastopol; Two Vessels Hit • New York Times: Ukraine Strikes the Headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Crimea • Reuters: Ukraine Says Serious Damage to Russian Naval Targets in Crimea Attack After Morocco Earthquake, Wiped-Out Villages Lose Hope of Rebuildi

WS • Bodies 'Everywhere' in Libyan City After Floods; Thousands Still Missing EFTA00160571 • Russian Navy Shipyard Targeted by Missile Strikes in Sevastopol; Two Vessels I-lit • After Morocco Earthquake, Wiped-Out Villages Lose I-lope of Rebuilding • Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin Meet at Russia's Main

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

1991. Its politics were riven by regional divides bet=een the country's west and the Russian-leaning east. Russia chose to =aintain a naval base in Sevastopol, the main port city in Crimea's southern tip. 20 EFTA_R1_02175165 EFTA02719144 Present day And so here we are. Russian troops, many based in S

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

Wage or 2O11 / TURKEY RUSSIA C SIM sow I' 4.5..•Orst FO,, EFTA_R1_02175186 EFTA02719165 And so here we are. Russian troops, many based in Sevastopol, fanned out across the peninsula last March to aid what was ultimately Russia's annexation of the territory. A pro-Russian insurgency in the east b