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Russia deploys air defense missiles for massive drills

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Syria lets Russia expand its Mediterranean naval facility

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016 frame grab made available by Russian Rossiya One TV Channel Emergency Ministry employees prepare a submersible to make it ready to join the search for bodies and fragments of the crashed plane, on a pier just outside Sochi, Russia. (Rossiya One TV Channel photo via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

The Latest: Witness who filmed Russian plane’s crash located

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A woman puts flowers at a pier in Sochi, Russia, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. All 84 passengers and eight crew members on the Russian military's Tu-154 plane are believed to have died Sunday morning when it crashed two minutes after taking off from the southern Russian city of Sochi. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)

Russia: Crashed jet fragments pulled from Black Sea

By Vladimir Isachenkov and Veronika Silchenko - Associated Press

Candles are placed around a photo of the crashed Tu-154 in memory of victims of the crashed plane in the center of Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016. A Tu-154 operated by the Russian Defense Ministry en route to Syria crashes into the Black Sea minutes after takeoff from Sochi. Everybody aboard the plane are thought to have perished and the cause of the crash is not immediately known. (AP Photo/Viktor Klyushin)

The Latest: Russia: Divers find jet fragments in Black Sea

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FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, stands with doctor Yelizaveta Glinka after giving her a state award at the award presentation ceremony for charity and human rights achievements in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. A Russian plane with 92 people aboard, including a well-known military band, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday, Dec. 25, minutes after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi, the Defense Ministry said. Glinka, widely known for her charity efforts, was among those on board the Tu-154 plane. Her foundation said she was accompanying a shipment of medicines for a Syrian hospital. (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

The Latest: Russian divers to work all night at crash site

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In this photo taken on Thursday, March 31, 2016, the Alexandrov Ensemble choir performs during a concert in Moscow, Russia. A Russian plane with 92 people aboard, including the well-known military band, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday, Dec. 25, minutes after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi, the Defense Ministry said. The Tu-154, which belonged to the ministry, was taking the Alexandrov Ensemble to a concert at the Russian air base in Syria. (AP Photo)

Russia examines all possible reasons for Black Sea jet crash

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and VERONIKA SILCHENKO - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, Russian troops are seen near truck-mounted Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles as they rehearse for the Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square, at a training field in the town of Alabino outside Moscow, Russia. President Vladimir Putin is projecting Russian military power overseas on a scale unseen since Soviet times. A massive reform effort begun in the wake of Russia’s troubled 2008 invasion of Georgia has transformed what long were crumbling, demoralized forces into an agile military capable of swift action in Ukraine and Syria. Russia’s young men once typically shunned their obligatory military service, but today’s recruits talk eagerly of longer-term enlistments. (AP Photo/File)

Putin’s Russia seeks to project power with modern military

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Russia fully deploys 2 new divisions near Western border

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Russian military considers return to Cuba, Vietnam

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. Russia on Tuesday argued strongly against Turkey's demand to keep a leading Kurdish group out of Syria's peace talks, and said it expects the U.N. envoy to resist what he called &quot;blackmail&quot; by Turkey and others, reflecting sharp differences that remain ahead of the scheduled talks. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia strongly warns US against striking Syrian army

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

A Russian bomber drops bombs on a target in this image made from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry. (Associated Press)

Russia dropping ‘dumb’ bombs in Syria, indiscriminately killing rebels and civilians alike

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, A Russian transport plane lands at Hemeimeem airbase, Syria. Nearly a quarter of a century after the Soviet collapse, the air campaign in Syria has proven that the resurgent Russian military machine could again operate far away from the nation's borders. (AP Photo/Vladimir Isachenkov)

New Russian military might on full display in Syria

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Patriot Park, Vladimir Putin’s ‘Military Disneyland,’ caters to Russia’s martial mood

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Ukrainian government soldiers were resting Sunday between the towns of Debaltseve and Artemivsk during a reprieve from a conflict that has claimed more than 5,300 lives. (Associated Press)

Ukraine-Russia cease-fire jeopardized by continued fighting around Debaltseve

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, file photo, Russian-backed separatists cover their ears as they fire a mortar towards Ukrainian troops outside the village of Sanzharivka, northeast of Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine says that eight troops have been killed and 34 wounded overnight, despite a peace deal and a looming cease-fire deadline. Vladislav Seleznyov, spokesman for the Ukrainian army general staff, said in comments carried by Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Friday that much of the fighting had taken place in Debaltseve, a key transport hub that has been hotly contested in recent days. (AP Photo/Maximilian Clarke, File)

Obama administration warily eyes Ukraine-Russia cease-fire while mulling arms support

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a visit to Hungary on Monday that her nation will not provide military hardware to Ukraine and asserted that the war with Russia-backed forces "cannot be solved militarily." (Associated Press)

Obama weighs lethal military aid to embattled Ukraine

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This is a Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, file photo provided by Britain's Royal Air Force of a Russian military long-range bomber aircraft photographed by an intercepting RAF quick reaction Typhoon (QRA) as it flies in international airspace. Russia's defense minister says the military will conduct regular long-range bomber patrols, ranging from the Arctic Ocean to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Royal AIr Force)

Russian bomber patrols to reach Gulf of Mexico

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

An F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off for a night mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Oct. 30, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by Val Gempis) ** FILE **

Vladimir Putin emboldened by weak U.S. response to Russian aggression

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A piece of a plane with the sign "Malaysia Airlines" lies in the grass as a group of Ukrainian coal miners search the site of a crashed Malaysian passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne, Ukraine, 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)

ALLARD: The wake-up call of the Malaysian Air shootdown

By Ken Allard