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In this June 14, 1961 file photo, Prime Minister Fidel Castro holds a cigar during a news conference in Havana, Cuba. For over half a century, the U.S. government tried many schemes to overthrow the Castro regime: poisonous cigars, an exploding seashell, the secret Twitter-like service in Cuba. U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 the United States will re-establish diplomatic ties with Cuba and bring change to the longstanding trade embargo. But it was unclear if all secret operations would cease. (AP Photo/RHS)

Inside the Ring: U.S. intel concerns about Russia-Cuba ties preceded Obama’s sanctions deal

By Bill Gertz

Signs advertising currencies light next to the exchange office in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. After a massive overnight rate hike by Russia's Central Bank, the ruble staged a two-hour rally Tuesday morning before rolling back to new historic lows. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian government strike fails to halt ruble’s slide

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Indian President Pranab Mukherjee meet in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Facing a stumbling economy at home and increasingly biting Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin sought Thursday to strengthen once-close relationship with India through an ambitious plan to help New Delhi build at least 12 new nuclear reactors. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin turns to India to clinch new deals

By Nirmala George - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin opens a meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin hopes to expand ties with India

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

A publishing house building is seen in flames in the center of Grozny, Russia, early Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. A gun battle broke out after midnight Thursday in the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, puncturing the patina of stability ensured by years of heavy-handed rule by a Kremlin-appointed leader. Security officials and the leader of Chechnya said gunmen traveling in several cars killed at least three traffic police officers at a checkpoint late at night in the capital of the republic, Grozny. The Moscow-based National Anti-Terrorist Committee said in a statement that after the attack on the traffic police, gunmen occupied a publishing house in the center of Grozny. It said security services, police and emergency services personnel surrounded the building. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)

Russia and Chechnya battle, leave 9 dead in Grozny

By Musa Sadulayev - Associated Press

People walk past a display with currency exchange rates at Kievskaya (Kiev's) railway station in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Poor and middle-class Russians are increasingly challenging government insistence that a 40 percent drop in the value of the ruble _ now worth a record low of 54 to the dollar _ will affect mainly the rich. Russia&#8217;s economy has been battered this year by uncertainty over the conflict in Ukraine, the falling price of oil, Western sanctions and retaliatory Russian import bans which have poor and middle-class Russians feeling the pinch. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Western sanctions, ruble crash hit Russians hard

By Laura Mills - Associated Press

A man in camouflage guards and chases away any would-be visitors at the Dobrobut farm in Grabovo, Crimea in this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Dobrobut was one of dozens of businesses to be forcibly taken over this year by Crimea's new pro-Moscow leaders. (AP Photo/Laura Mills)

Crimea change of leadership means property grab

By Laura Mills and John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

A man walks past a currency exchange booth in downtown Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. The Russian government has for the first time acknowledged that the country will fall into recession next year, battered by the plunge in the price of its oil exports. The top two figures indicate the spread on the dollar-ruble rate and the bottom two figures indicate the the euro-ruble rate. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia warns of recession next year; ruble falls to record low against the dollar

Associated Press

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, right, celebrates with Arseniy Yatsenyuk after Yatsenyuk was appointed as Prime Minister during the opening first session of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014. Parliament in Ukraine has opened for its first session since an election last month that ushered in a spate of pro-Western parties. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, Pool)

Ukraine gets loan to modernize gas pipelines

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Military honour guard stand outside the main building of the new Presidential Palace complex after a welcome ceremony for Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Putin arrived in Turkey for a one-day visit and met with Erdogan at his huge new palace on once-protected farm land and forest in Ankara, becoming the second foreign dignitary after the Pope Francis to be hosted at the lavish, 1000-room complex.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Putin says Russia will scrap South Stream pipeline

By Suzan Fraser and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Mideast Nuclear Missiles Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

JOHN BOLTON: Obama’s Iran policy has global implications

By John R. Bolton

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 1980, file photo, the United States ice hockey team rushes toward goalie Jim Craig after their 4-3 upset win over the Soviet Union in the semi-final round of the XIII Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. Bob Suter (20), a member of the “Miracle On Ice” team that won gold in 1980 and the father of Minnesota Wild star Ryan Suter, died on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. He was 57. (AP Photo/File)

Viktor Tikhonov dies at 84, former Soviet hockey coach lost to U.S. in 1980 ‘Miracle on Ice’

Associated Press

Russian solders with their several military vehicle gather at the rail road crossing about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Ukrainian border at Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, early Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

NATO: Russia engaged in ‘serious military buildup’ near Ukrainian border

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Kremlin unveiled its latest weapon to combat the West's "information war" on President Vladimir Putin with the launch of Sputnik — a lavishly funded, international media outlet whose advent heralds a silencing of dissent and criticism in Russia. (AP Photo/Alain Jocard, Pool)

Sputnik launched by Russia to silence dissent, combat ‘information war’ against Putin

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

Fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine despite a September cease-fire agreement forged with Russia. (Associated Press)

Russia pushes into Ukraine, prompting Obama rebuke but no new sanctions

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

Relatives of 18-year-old Andrei Yeliseyev and 14-year-old Daniil Kuznetsov cry during a funeral at a local cemetery in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. The rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Friday mourned the two teenagers who were killed in Wednesday's artillery strike on a high school on the city's western outskirts. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Ukraine accuses Russia of sending dozens of tanks

By Peter Leonard - Associated Press

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, third from top right corner, watches as U.S. President Barack Obama, second left front row, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, gesturing, talk when posing for a family photo on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, POOL)

Russia boycotts nuclear meeting

By GEORGE JAHN and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

EDITORIAL: Tobacco neo-Prohibitionists at the U.N.

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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