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** FILE ** In this March 17, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Analysis: Putin tests Obama’s foreign policy

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Pro Russian activists block a road with car tires near the armory Ukrainian army to prevent the export of arms and ammunition in the village of Poraskoveyevka, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, March 20, 2014. The disheveled men barricading the muddy lane leading into a military base in this eastern Ukraine village say they're taking a stand to defend Russian-speakers. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Echoes of Crimea keep Ukraine’s east rumbling

By YURAS KARMANAU and PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

Russian: No military moves planned against Ukraine

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Man in human-trafficking case seeks Ukraine trip

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President Barack Obama makes a statement on Ukraine, Thursday, March 20, 2014, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington before departing for Florida. President Barack Obama said the US is levying a new round of economic sanctions on individuals in Russia, both inside and outside the government, in retaliation for the Kremlin's actions in Ukraine. He also said he has also signed a new executive order that would allow the U.S. to sanction key sectors of the Russian economy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

US, Europe sanctions target Putin’s inner circle

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

A Ukrainian officer checks documents at the border crossing of Uspenka on the Ukrainian-Russian border, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Ukraine's leadership simmered with a mix of hopelessness and anger at losing Crimea, tempering an influx of eager young men signing up as reservists with the growing certainty that no savior would deliver them from the Russian takeover. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

FIBA denies Ukraine to give up 2015 Euro basket

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Worries about unrest in Ukraine lead to recital

By DAN SPALDING - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. Durbin and a team of seven other senators concluded their visit in Kiev on Saturday with a news conference in which they reaffirmed their support to the interim Ukrainian government. (AP Photo/David Azia)

Senators urge Europeans to deploy civilian monitors to Ukraine

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. The president imposed sanctions against Russian officials, including advisers to President Vladimir Putin, for their support of Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Russian-speaking troops take over 2 naval bases

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

An elderly woman holds a calendar depicting Soviet leader Josef Stalin while watching a broadcast of Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech on Crimea in Sevastopol, Crimea, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, as thousands of pro-Russian people gathered to watch the address. Fiercely defending Russia's move to annex Crimea Putin said Russia had to respond to what he described as a western plot to take Ukraine into its influence.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine grapples with despair in Crimea takeover

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

Tymoshenko leaves Berlin hospital; heading home

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U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, speaks during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, March 15, 2014. McCain and a team of seven other senators concluded their visit in Kiev on Saturday with a news conference in which they reaffirmed their support to the interim Ukrainian government. (AP Photo/David Azia)

McCain: ‘A little embarrassed’ by GOP attitude on Ukraine and IMF

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this March 17, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Analysis: Russia tests Obama foreign policy tools

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: If might makes right, Obama is wrong

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

US Army will exercise in Ukraine this summer

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An armed man clears a roof of an Ukrainian military unit in Simferopol, Crimea, on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Crimean forces storm Ukrainian navy HQ

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Ukrainian servicemen struggle to defend the navy headquarters in Crimea. Story, A10. (Associated Press)

U.S., allies have all but kicked Russia out of the Group of Eight

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Obama: US military not getting involved in Ukraine

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Vice President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite after giving a joint statement at the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Lithuania to reassure Baltic leaders that the U.S. is committed to defending its NATO allies in the face of Russia's intervention in Crimea. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Biden warns of Moscow’s ‘naked aggression’ as Crimea crisis deepens

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he arrives at the Okecie military airport in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Biden arrived in Warsaw for consultations with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Bronislaw Komorowski, 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/Alik Keplicz)

Joe Biden touches down in Poland to flex U.S. muscle to Russia

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times