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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches the opening ceremony of natural gas pipeline from Russia to Crimea during a live video link from the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Relatives of Ukrainian soldier Sergey Kokurin, 35, during his funeral in Simferopol, Crimea, Saturday, March 22, 2014. A few hundred mourners gathered to pay their last respects to two men who were shot dead earlier in the week. Ukrainian soldier Sergey Kokurin, 35 and Russian Cossack militiaman Ruslan Kazakov, 34, are the only known victims of what has otherwise been a bloodless takeover of Crimea by Russia.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Ukrainian soldiers stand around the coffin of Sergey Kokurin, 35, during his funeral in Simferopol, Crimea, Saturday, March 22, 2014. A few hundred mourners gathered to pay their last respects to two men who were shot dead earlier in the week. Ukrainian soldier Sergey Kokurin, 35 and Russian Cossack militiaman Ruslan Kazakov, 34, are the only known victims of what has otherwise been a bloodless takeover of Crimea by Russia. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Unidentified armed men search an area close to an Ukrainian military unit in Simferopol, Crimea, on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Gunfire at the military facility in the capital of separatist Crimea killed one serviceman and a member of a local self-defense brigade, a police spokeswoman was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. (AP Photo/Andrei Udovichenko)
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Participants in a rally in support of Crimea joining Russia, hold Russian flags in Red Square in Moscow, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. With a sweep of his pen, President Vladimir Putin added Crimea to the map of Russia on Tuesday, describing the move as correcting past injustice and responding to what he called Western encroachment upon Russia's vital interests. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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Crimean leaders, Speaker of Crimean legislature Vladimir Konstantinov, left, and Crimean Premier Sergei Aksyonov, wearing ribbons symbolizing the Soviet victory in WWII, attend a rally in support of Crimea joining Russia, in Red Square in Moscow, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. With a sweep of his pen, President Vladimir Putin added Crimea to the map of Russia on Tuesday, describing the move as correcting past injustice and responding to what he called Western encroachment upon Russia's vital interests. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
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Crimean leaders, from left, Speaker of Crimean legislature Vladimir Konstantinov, Crimean Premier Sergei Aksyonov and Sevastopol mayor Alexei Chalyi, wearing ribbons symbolizing the Soviet victory in WWII, attend a rally in support of Crimea joining Russia in Red Square in Moscow, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. With a sweep of his pen, President Vladimir Putin added Crimea to the map of Russia on Tuesday, describing the move as correcting past injustice and responding to what he called Western encroachment upon Russia's vital interests. The sign in the back says "Crimea is in my heart!" (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
