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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, after a Democratic caucus luncheon. Reid said Democrats are likely to remove a major roadblock preventing Congress from passing legislation authorizing sanctions on Russia and providing aid to Ukraine. He added that it appears that Democrats have agreed on a way to move the legislation forward without a provision affecting the International Monetary Fund. He says he feels strongly about IMF reforms, but that it’s important to assist Ukraine and hit Russia with sanctions over its military incursion into Crimea. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this photo taken Monday, March 17, 2014, Ukrainian Defense Minister Igor Tenyukh pauses as he answers a question during a news conference at a hotel in Kiev, Ukraine. Lawmakers in Ukraine accepted the resignation on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 of Tenyukh as thousands of troops withdraw from the Crimean Peninsula, now controlled by Russia. In address to parliament, Igor Tenyukh said Tuesday that he rejected criticism that he had failed to issue clear instructions to troops, but that he reserved the right to step down. Lawmakers initially refused his resignation but then accepted it. (AP Photo/David Azia)
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, meets with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia at the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, March 24, 2014. Nuclear terrorism is officially the main topic for world leaders at a two-day summit in the Netherlands, in practice, the Ukraine crisis overshadows those talks. (AP Photo)
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to attend a G7 meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014. In a day of delicate diplomacy he sought to rally the international community Monday around efforts to isolate Russia following its incursion into Ukraine. Nuclear terrorism was the official topic as Obama and other world leaders streamed in to a convention center in The Hague for a two-day Nuclear Security Summit. But the real focus was on a hurriedly scheduled meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized economies to address the crisis in Ukraine on the sidelines of the nuclear summit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, Pool)
