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  • In this image taken from  video a convoy of white trucks with humanitarian aid leaves Alabino, outside Moscow Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. The convoy of 280 Russian trucks headed for eastern Ukraine early Tuesday, one day after agreement was reached on an international humanitarian relief mission. But the international Red Cross, which is due to coordinate the operation, said it had no information on what the trucks were carrying or where they were going. (AP Photo/ RTR via Associated Press Television) TV OUT RUSSIA OUT

    Ukraine: Russian Aid Can Enter With Red Cross

    MOSCOW — With a theatrical flourish, Russia on Tuesday dispatched hundreds of trucks covered in white tarps and sprinkled with holy water on a mission to deliver aid to a desperate rebel-held zone in eastern Ukraine. The televised sight of […]

  • Australian Prime Minister Dubs Russia ‘A Bully’

    Australian Prime Minister Dubs Russia ‘A Bully’

    SYDNEY — Australia’s prime minister has dubbed Russia “a bully” and threatened stronger sanctions against the country following Russia’s ban on most Western food imports. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday banned most food imports from the West in retaliation […]

  • Obama, Putin Discuss Ukraine, Missile Treaty

    Obama, Putin Discuss Ukraine, Missile Treaty

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday that the United States is still deeply concerned that Russia is ramping up support for pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. It was the first conversation between the leaders since the […]

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  • Russian President  Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting outside the Tzar Pushka ( Tzar Cannon) in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Putin on Thursday presented state awards to cosmonauts, lawmakers, journalists and others. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

    AP Analysis: Putin Cornered Over Ukraine

    MOSCOW — For Russian President Vladimir Putin, there are few options left in the Ukraine crisis and they all look bad. He is caught between a determined West demanding that he disavow the pro-Russian insurgents in Ukraine and increasingly assertive […]

  • U.S., Europe Impose Tough New Sanctions On Russia

    U.S., Europe Impose Tough New Sanctions On Russia

    WASHINGTON — Spurred to action by the downing of the Malaysian airliner, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday against Russia, followed swiftly by a new round of U.S. penalties targeting key sectors of the Russian economy. The […]

  • Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans, center, talks with Croatia's Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic, left, and Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, during the EU foreign ministers council at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. European Union foreign ministers are meeting to consider further sanctions against Russia because of the downing of the Malaysian jetliner, with Britain and some other countries demanding much tougher measures. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

    EU Imposes New Sanctions Against Russian Officials

    BRUSSELS — The European Union agreed Tuesday to impose new sanctions against officials deemed responsible for Russia’s actions in Ukraine, amid mounting international anger after a Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over rebel-held territory. European foreign ministers stopped short, […]

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  • A woman looks at a refrigerated train loaded with the bodies of victims, in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from  the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

    Pro-Russia Rebels Take Full Control Of Plane Crash Bodies

    TOREZ, Ukraine — Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access […]

  • Obama Says Putin Has “Most Control” Over Eastern Ukraine Situation

    Obama Says Putin Has “Most Control” Over Eastern Ukraine Situation

    U.S. President Obama said Russian President Vladimir Putin had the most power to reduce the violence in Ukraine and had chosen not to do so. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

  • A woman walks at the site of a crashed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne, eastern Ukraine Friday, July 18, 2014. Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners were combing a sprawling area in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border where the Malaysian plane ended up in burning pieces Thursday, killing all 298 aboard. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

    Putin Calls For Peace In Ukraine After Plane Crash

    ROZSYPNE, Ukraine — Emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners – dressed in overalls and covered in soot – spread out Friday across the sunflower fields and villages of eastern Ukraine, searching the wreckage of a jetliner shot […]

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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a news conference after his meeting with Austrian President Heinz Fischer in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The Russian President visited Vienna on Tuesday, where he met with the Austrian leadership and officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation who had helped broker peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

    Ukraine’s Cease-Fire Jeopardized By Deadly Attack

    MOSCOW — The shaky cease-fire in Ukraine was thrown into peril Tuesday when pro-Moscow separatists shot down a Ukrainian military helicopter, killing nine servicemen. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko warned he may end the weeklong truce ahead of time. The deadly […]

  • Poroshenko Sworn In As Ukraine’s President

    Poroshenko Sworn In As Ukraine’s President

    P KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s new president on Saturday called for pro-Russian rebels in the country’s east to lay down their arms and welcomed dialogue with the insurgents, but said he wouldn’t negotiate with those he called “gangsters and killers” […]

  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko, center, talk after a group photo before a luncheon as they take part in the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Benouville in Normandy, France, Friday, June 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Ukraine, U.S., Russia: 3 Men Face To Face At Last

    OUISTREHAM, France — The American, Russian and incoming Ukrainian presidents spoke face-to-face about ending Ukraine’s violence, a diplomatic turning point that played out Friday along the blood-soaked beaches where the Allies battled for Europe’s peace 70 years earlier. The Kremlin […]

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  • Obama, Cameron Lay Down New Markers For Putin

    Obama, Cameron Lay Down New Markers For Putin

    BRUSSELS — President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron laid down new markers for Russia Thursday, giving Moscow a month to meet their conditions in Ukraine or face further sanctions. The new thresholds for action were spelled out […]

  • France Hosts Dueling Dinners For Obama, Putin

    France Hosts Dueling Dinners For Obama, Putin

    PARIS — French President Francois Hollande certainly won’t go hungry this Thursday night. He’s dining twice – first with U.S. President Barack Obama, then with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It will be digestive and logistical challenge, but the safest diplomatic […]

  • No Plans For Obama-Putin Meeting At D-Day Events

    No Plans For Obama-Putin Meeting At D-Day Events

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has no plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin when both leaders attend next month’s events in France marking the 70th anniversary of D-Day. But the White House isn’t […]

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  • Pro-Russian activists clash with police in front of the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Thursday, May 1, 2014. Anti-government demonstrators in Donetsk have stormed the local prosecutor's office. The clash came after a march by several hundred people carrying flags of the Donetsk People's Republic, a movement that seeks either greater autonomy from the central government, or independence and possible annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

    Putin Wants Troops Out Of Ukraine’s East

    DONETSK, Ukraine  — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Ukraine should withdraw its military units from the eastern and southern regions of the country, where anti-government insurgents are seizing buildings, but hours later, Ukraine’s acting president ordered the military […]

  • Armed pro-Russian activists walk through a street near to the seized Ukrainian regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian town of Slovyansk,  Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014.  Ukraine's acting president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen kept up their rampage of storming and occupying local government offices, police stations and a small airport. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

    U.S.: Evidence Of Russia Driving Ukraine Unrest

    WASHINGTON — A senior administration official says President Barack Obama has told Russian President Vladimir Putin that while a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine remains open, Russia’s actions have not been conducive to that approach. The official says […]

  • Allies of the Russian president targeted by US sanctions include railways boss Vladimir Yakunin (left)

    Obama Hits Closest Putin Allies With Sanctions Over Crimea

    WASHINGTON/MOSCOW – U.S. President Barack Obama raised the stakes in an East-West confrontation over Crimea on Thursday by targeting some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest long-time political and business allies with personal sanctions. The extension of visa bans and […]

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  • Analysis: Crisis Shows Russia’s Post-Soviet Anger

    Analysis: Crisis Shows Russia’s Post-Soviet Anger

    WASHINGTON — The crisis over Crimea is more than a dispute over whether the strategic Black Sea peninsula should be considered Russian or Ukrainian. At its root is a deeper issue: Russia’s simmering anger over its treatment by the West […]

  • Demonstrators against Russian military actions in Ukraine rally in Times Square, Sunday, March 2, 2014, in New York. Western powers are prepared "to go to the hilt" to isolate Russia for its military incursion into Ukraine, "an incredible act of aggression" that may lead to visa bans, asset freezes, trade and investment penalties, and a boycott of a Russian-hosted economic summit of global powers in June, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    U.S. Calls Any Threat To Ukraine Navy ‘Dangerous’

    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Monday that any Russian threat to Ukraine’s navy would be a “dangerous escalation” of an extremely tense situation . The State Department said that Washington would hold Moscow directly accountable for such an escalation […]

  • Protesters call for U.S. action against possible Russian incursions into Ukraine, in front of the White House in Washington March 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded and won his parliament's approval on Saturday to invade Ukraine, where the new government warned of war, put its troops on high alert and appealed to NATO for help. Putin's move was a direct rebuff to Western leaders who had repeatedly urged Russia not to intervene, including U.S. President Barack Obama, who just a day before had held a televised address to warn Moscow of "costs" if it acted. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst   (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

    Obama, Wary Of Foreign Crises, Faces East-West Standoff In Ukraine

    WASHINGTON  – As Russia deepened its military intervention in Ukraine’s Crimea region on Saturday, ignoring Barack Obama’s stern warning, the U.S. president faced a critical test of whether Washington has the leverage or the will to get Moscow to back […]

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  • Russian armored personnel carriers and a truck are parked on the side of the road near the town of Bakhchisarai, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. The vehicles were parked on the side of the road near the town of Bakhchisarai, apparently because one of them had mechanical problems. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

    Ukraine Urges Putin To Stop `Provocations’

    SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine  — Ukraine’s fugitive president resurfaced in Russia Friday to deliver a defiant condemnation of a “bandit coup,” while Russian armored vehicles rumbled across Crimea and men described as Russian troops deployed at airports and a coast guard base […]

  • In this Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 photo made available by Presidential Press Service on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin, listens during an interview to Russian and foreign media at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, which will host Winter Olympic Games on Feb. 7, 2014. President Vladimir Putin once again has offered assurances to gays planning to attend the Sochi Olympics, but his arguments defending Russia’s ban on homosexual “propaganda” to minors show the vast gulf between how he understands the issues and how homosexuality is generally viewed in the West. In an interview with Russian and foreign television stations broadcast Sunday, Putin equated gays with pedophiles and spoke of the need for Russia to “cleanse” itself of homosexuality as part of efforts to increase the birth rate. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

    U.S. Lawmakers Raise Safety Concerns About Olympics

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress expressed serious concerns Sunday about the safety of Americans at next month’s Olympics in Russia and said Moscow needs to cooperate more on security. Suicide bombings last month in the southern Russian city of […]

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during his meeting with Armenian President Serge Sarksyan in Yerevan December 2, 2013. REUTERS/Aleksey Nikolskyi/RIA Novosti/Kremlin

    Putin Dissolves State News Agency, Tightens Grip On Russia Media

    MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin tightened his control over Russia’s media on Monday by dissolving the main state news agency and replacing it with an organization that is to promote Moscow’s image abroad. The move to abolish RIA Novosti and […]

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