Sergey Lavrov

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov raises his hands to take off his headphones at the end of a news conference at the Spanish foreign ministry in Madrid, Spain Wednesday March 5, 2014. Lavrov held talks on the Ukraine crisis with European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton in Madrid on Tuesday, and met with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and later King Juan Carlos. Tension has risen in recent weeks with Western countries backing the country’s new caretaker government while Moscow accuses them of supporting an anti-constitutional coup and pledges to protect Russians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Paul White)