U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives at the Vilnius airport in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Biden arrived in Vilnius for consultations with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite and Latvia's President Andris Berzins, a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, one of a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)