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President Barack Obama makes a statement on Ukraine, Thursday, March 20, 2014, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington before departing for Florida. President Barack Obama said the US is levying a new round of economic sanctions on individuals in Russia, both inside and outside the government, in retaliation for the Kremlin's actions in Ukraine. He also said he has also signed a new executive order that would allow the U.S. to sanction key sectors of the Russian economy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

US, Europe sanctions target Putin’s inner circle

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this March 17, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Analysis: Russia tests Obama foreign policy tools

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Conn. “wheys” in on international cheese fight

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** FILE ** Rep. Christopher Murphy, Connecticut Democrat. (Associated Press)

Sen. Murphy: Putin ‘making this up as we go along’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2013 file photo U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, talk during a photo opportunity at the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland. Tehran may have a new ally on Tuesday when Iran nuclear talks reconvene _ the Ukraine crisis. U.S.-Russian tensions over Ukraine could fray the search for consensus on what Iran needs to do to ease fears it could make atomic arms. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool, File)

Analysis: Ukraine casts pall over Iran nuke talks

By GEORGE JAHN - Associated Press

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. The president imposed sanctions against Russian officials, including advisers to President Vladimir Putin, for their support of Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mockery greets Obama’s new sanctions against Russian officials after Crimea action

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics at the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi, Russia, Sunday, March 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

ORTEL: In Ukraine, Putin sets referendum on Western progress

By Charles Ortel

Ohio dairy industry wants European-named cheeses

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks at a press conference at the Russian Ambassador's residence in London, Friday, March 14, 2014. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke following a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Kerry: US won’t recognize Crimea vote

By LARA JAKES and CASSANDRA VINOGRAD - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, after attending a pair of Democratic fundraisers. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Obama to host new Ukrainian PM at White House

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

An anti-war demonstrators gather holds a poster reading &quot;Peace to the World!&quot; during a rally in Moscow, Russia, late Friday, March 7, 2014. Russia rallied support Friday for a Crimean bid to secede from Ukraine, with a leader of Russia’s parliament assuring her Crimean counterpart that the region would be welcomed as “an absolutely equal subject of the Russian Federation.” Across Red Square, 65,000 people waved Russian flags, chanting “Crimea is Russia!”(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia warns heavier sanctions could backfire

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

SAUNDERS: Failing to foresee Ukraine

By Paul J. Saunders

A Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel &quot;Ochakov&quot; from the Black Sea shore outside the town of Myrnyi, western Crimea, Ukraine, Thursday, March 6, 2014. In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the decommissioned ship, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside of the Southern Naval Headquarters located in Myrnyi in Western Crimea as Russian war vessels patrolled just of the coast. The vessel was brought by Russian naval forces on the 4th of March towed by a tug boat while escorted by a warship and several gun boats. Marines from the Ukrainian navy heard a loud explosion in the early hours of last night coming from the vessel blocking a channel leading to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Crimea to vote to split from Ukraine, join Russia

By YURAS KARMANAU and JUERGEN BAETZ - Associated Press

In this image taken Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures speaking at his meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow. As a counterweight to the European Union, Russia’s Vladimir Putin is pursuing an ambitious dream rooted in memories of Soviet glory: The Eurasian Union. It’s a strategy to pull former Soviet satellite states back into Moscow’s orbit through a combination of incentives and threats. And embattled Ukraine, a huge country of 46 million people, has lain at the center of the game-plan. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

Putin uses carrot and stick to dominate neighbors

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

A Russian soldier guards a pier where two Ukrainian naval vessels are moored, in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Ukraine's new prime minister said Wednesday that embattled Crimea must remain part of Ukraine, but may be granted more local powers. Since last weekend, Russian troops have taken control of much of the peninsula in the Black Sea, where Russian speakers are in the majority. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

White House to Putin: Allow international monitors in Crimea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Reagan administration warned Russian pipeline through Ukraine would weaken West

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

From left, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, French President Francois Hollande, Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, talk together during a break of a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Top diplomats from the West and Russia trying to find an end to the crisis in Ukraine are gathering in Paris on Wednesday as tensions simmered over the Russian military takeover of the strategic Crimean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Alain Jocard, Pool)

Russia, West try to hammer out Ukraine diplomacy

By LARA JAKES and MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

Unidentified gunmen stand outside entrance to the General Staff Headquarters of the Ukrainian Navy in Sevastopol, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014. Pro-Russian soldiers seem to further cement their control over the strategic region, that also houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet, by seizing a ferry terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kerch about 20 kilometers (12 miles) by boat to Russia, intensifying fears that Moscow will send even more troops into the peninsula. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)

Russia sets Ukraine agenda with diplomacy, threats

By DAVID McHUGH and DALTON BENNETT - Associated Press

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question regarding the ongoing situation in the Ukraine, during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, March 3, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama warns U.S. may retaliate against Russia with economic sanctions

By Dave Boyer and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

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