--- 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

d the Federal Security Service "as saying Russian security forces on Thursday detained a serviceman from its Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Thursday on suspicion of spying for Ukrainian military intelligence." The FSB did not "name the serviceman or give his rank." Masked men in plain

d the Federal Security Service "as saying Russian security forces on Thursday detained a serviceman from its Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Thursday on suspicion of spying for Ukrainian military intelligence." The FSB did not "name the serviceman or give his rank." Masked men in plain

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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

d the Federal Security Service "as saying Russian security forces on Thursday detained a serviceman from its Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Thursday on suspicion of spying for Ukrainian military EFTA01658302 intelligence." The FSB did not "name the serviceman or give his rank." Mask

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

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