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Russian President Vladimir Putin reacts during a news conference after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych in Moscow on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has agreed to sharply cut the price for its natural gas supplies to Ukraine and will buy $15 billion worth of Ukrainian government bonds, but says there was no discussion about Ukraine joining a free trade pact of three ex-Soviet nations. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Putin: Russia to buy $15 billion in Ukraine bonds

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

About 200,000 pro-European Union activists rally in Independence Square in Kiev on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukrainian opposition presses with massive rally

By Maria Danilova and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Echoes of Cold War in Ukraine as Russia tries to rein in former Soviet satellites

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pro-European Union activists wave flags celebrating riot police leaving form the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Security forces clashed with protesters as they began tearing down opposition barricades and tents set up in the center of the Ukrainian capital early Wednesday, in an escalation of the weeks-long standoff threatening the leadership of President Viktor Yanukovych. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine police cave as Kiev protests explodes

By Jim Heintz and Maria Danilova - Associated Press

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Embassy Row: Hostage location classified

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Ukrainian lawmaker and chairman of the opposition party Udar (Punch), WBC heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko surrounded by police trying to stop possible clashes between police and Pro-European Union activists in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 9, 2013. Hundreds of police in full riot gear on Monday flooded the center of Kiev key sites of mass anti-government protests that have gripped the capital for weeks, raising fears of a crackdown.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine leader to talk with protesters; Washington urges caution

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Is Ukraine truly ready for EU entry?

By our readers

Ukrainians rally outside the presidential administration building in central Kiev on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, after opposition lawmakers failed to force out the government with a parliamentary no-confidence vote, leaving political tensions unresolved and a potential standoff between protesters and the country's leaders looming. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine mass protests resume after government wins vote

By Maria Danilova - Associated Press

A voter walks past the Croatian flag at a polling station in Pula, Croatia, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013, as the nation votes in a referendum that could ban gay marriages. Conservative groups, backed by the Roman Catholic Church, demanded that the country's constitution define matrimony as a union of a man and a woman. The issue has divided the European Union's newest member nation. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Croatia votes on whether to ban gay marriages

By Eldar Emric - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Help Ukraine join European Union

By our readers

Protesters throw stones as they clash with riot police at the presidential office in Kiev on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. In the biggest show of anger yet over the Ukrainian president's refusal to sign an agreement with the European Union, as many as 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center of the capital in defiance of a government ban on protests on Independence Square. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukrainian riot police use tear gas, truncheons on Kiev protesters

By Maria Danilova and Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a joint press conference with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013. Sharif said Saturday that the recent release of a senior Taliban leader shows he is committed to helping bring peace to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Embassy Row: ‘Zero is not an option’ in Afghanistan

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he meets the media during a bilateral meeting between Italy and Russia, in Trieste, Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Putin outflanks his foes at home, Obama abroad

By By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird

Embassy Row: Canada strong and free

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

ROHAC: Fewer Europeans trust the EU

By Dalibor Rohac

Demonstrators hold up a flag with the face of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a protest in Kiev on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the Ukrainian capital to demand that the government reverse course and sign a landmark agreement with the European Union in defiance of Russia. The protest was the biggest Ukraine has seen since the peaceful 2004 Orange Revolution, which overturned a fraudulent presidential election result and brought a Western-leaning government to power. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Tens of thousands rally in Ukraine for closer EU ties

By Maria Danilova - Associated Press

Opposition lawmakers wear shirts emblazoned with a photo of jailed former Premier Yulia Tymoshenko during a session of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Ukraine suspends preparations for signing deal with European Union

Associated Press

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

POPADIUK: Ukraine’s shift toward Europe

By Roman Popadiuk

Eugenia Tymoshenko (left), daughter of imprisoned former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and Serhiy Vlasenko, the lawyer for the jailed politician, watch a parliament session in Kiev on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. Opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk told a parliamentary committee hearing on Monday he had received a text message from Mr. Vlasenko saying that he had been arrested. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Former Ukraine leader Yulia Tymoshenko’s lawyer is questioned, charged

By Maria Danilova - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, walks with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel prior to a group photo of G-20 leaders outside of the Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. Reports based on leaks from former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden suggest the U.S. has monitored the telephone communications of 35 foreign leaders. The fact that Merkel was among them has been particularly troubling to many in Europe and on Capitol Hill, given her status as a senior stateswoman, the leader of Europe&#8217;s strongest economy, and a key American ally on global economics, Iranian nuclear negotiations and the Afghanistan war. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Germany sees U.S. as sore loser in trade competition

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times