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The debris field at the crash site was grisly and widespread. Pro-Russia separatists declared a three-day cease-fire for recovery efforts and investigation of the passenger plane downing that killed all 298 people aboard on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Shot out of the sky: Malaysian airliner downing stokes tensions between Ukraine, Russia

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Obama enters the White House briefing room Wednesday to announce a new series of sanctions against Russia in response to the crisis in Ukraine. The sanctions are aimed at Russian energy, financial and defense companies. (associated press)

Obama rolls out new sanctions on Russia’s energy and financial sectors

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Paramedics, a police officer and a voluenteer carry an injured man out from a subway station after a rush-hour subway train derailment in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. A rush-hour subway train derailed in Moscow Tuesday, killing about a dozen people and injuring at least 106, emergency officials said. Several cars left the track in the tunnel after a power surge triggered an alarm, which caused the train to stop abruptly. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Rush-hour Moscow subway derails: 21 dead, 136 hurt

By Vitnija Saldava and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrives for an agreement signing ceremony at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, July 14, 2014. Putin is in Brazil to attend a presidential summit of the BRICS group of nations. He was in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday for the World Cup final and ceremonial handover of host duties for soccer's marquee tournament, which next takes place in Russia in 2018. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

U.S. preparing unilateral sanctions on Russia

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Illustration on Vladimir Putin by Graff, Dagbladet, Oslo, Norway

GORDON: Russia plays its own game away from the World Cup

By J.D. Gordon

Cars ease under a destroyed railroad bridge near the village of Novobakhmutivka, located north of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Bridges leading into Donetsk were likely destroyed to slow government forces from moving on the rebel-held stronghold. (associated press)

Inaction in Ukraine threatens Putin’s image at home

By Marc Bennetts — Special to The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin enters the Alexander Hall to attend a ceremony of presentation of credentials by foreign ambassadors in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Friday, June 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

Anti-Americanism rampant, fringe conspiracy theories take hold in Russia

By Marc Bennetts — The Washington Times

Ukraine, EU sign historic trade and economic pact

By John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko delivers his speech at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)

Thousands flee Ukraine for Russia; truce nears end

By Balint Szlanko - Associated Press

A Russian Tu-95 Bear H. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Russia fires six new air-launched cruise missiles

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

In this photo taken on Sunday, June 22, 2014, Russian Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside Moscow's Kremlin Wall, in Moscow, Russia, to mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Russian news agencies say President Vladimir Putin has asked parliament to cancel a resolution that sanctions the use of military force in Ukraine. Putin wrote to the head of parliament's upper house asking that a March 1 request authorizing the use of force in neighboring Ukraine be withdrawn. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine’s cease-fire jeopardized by deadly attack

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

A pro-Russian fighter holds a gun during a handover of the bodies of Ukrainian troops killed in a plane shot down near Luhansk, at a check point in the village of Karlivka near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The two sides managed to arrange a brief truce Wednesday evening in the eastern town of Karlivka to allow pro-Russian forces to hand over the bodies of 49 Ukrainian troops who died when the separatists shot down a transport plane bound for the airport in Luhansk last weekend. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

NATO: Russia sent thousands of troops back to Ukraine border

By Vladimir Isachenkov and John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

Miners march during a rally in support of peace in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Hundreds of miners went on a protest walk through the streets of central Donetsk on Wednesday, trying to express support for a peaceful resolution to the eastern Ukraine conflict, ongoing for almost four months. Slogans read: No to NATO, Stop War, For Federalization. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine’s president offers cease-fire in east

By David McHugh - Associated Press

A pro-Russian fighter stands guard at a checkpoint in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, June 12, 2014. The city has been an epicenter of a nearly two-month standoff between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels, who have seized administrative buildings, police stations and border posts across the region. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine minister says 3 tanks crossed border from Russia: ‘Part of this column has been destroyed’

By David McHugh and Jim Heintz - Associated Press

"Age of Delirium" deconstructs the spell and false promises that communism held sway over Russians for nearly a century. The film is narrated by David Satter, a Russian-speaking American journalist expelled from the country by the Kremlin last December. (Associated Press)

New documentary re-examines fall of USSR

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Tom Cruise in the 1986 blockbuster movie Top Gun

Top Gun sequel: Russian jet, U.S. plane nearly collide in showdown over Pacific

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

Russian Interior Ministry troopers give a training exhibition during a celebration of 197th anniversary of creation of Interior Ministry Forces in Ashukino, Russia, Thursday, March 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Russian lawmakers playing war games near Moscow

By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

One analyst suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin's shifting mood is connected to the realization that war with neighboring Ukraine would have "extremely unpredictable consequences" at home and in the international arena.
(Associated Press)

Cost of war: Russia’s curious reasoning for retreat in Ukraine

By Marc Bennetts — Special to The Washington Times

Chudinov defends interim WBA middleweight belt

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5 Russia players to watch at the World Cup

Associated Press