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Interfax: Ukrainian military base in Crimea under siege by Russians; no shots fired

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5 NW athletes at Winter Paralympics at Sochi

By TOM BANSE - Associated Press

Pentagon: About 20,000 Russian troops in Ukraine

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Crimea's prime minister Sergei Aksyonov, center, enters a hall prior the talks in Russian Parliament in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. Valentina Matvienko, speaker for Russia's upper house of parliament says Crimea would be welcome as an &quot;equal subject&quot; in Russia if the region votes to leave Ukraine in an upcoming referendum. Russia's parliament is planning to review a bill as early as next week that would speed up Crimea's integration into Russia. Crimea would be the first territory to officially join Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Alexander Shalgin)

Russia in patriotic fervor over Crimea

By LAURA MILLS and JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

President of the the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine Valeriy Suskevich gestures as he answers a question during a press conference before the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine will compete in Sochi Paralympics despite Crimea conflict

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US warship the USS Truxtun sails in Bosporus Strait en route to the Black Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, March 7, 2014. The Navy destroyer USS Truxtun is participating in exercises with Romania and Bulgaria and is expected to be in the Black Sea for several days amid a stand-off over Russia's military incursion into Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

LYONS: How to respond to Russia’s thrust into Ukraine

By James A. Lyons

AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EST

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics at the Fisht Olympic stadium in Sochi, Russia, Friday, March 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Putin declares Sochi Winter Paralympics open

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An anti-war demonstrators gather holds a poster reading &quot;Peace to the World!&quot; during a rally in Moscow, Russia, late Friday, March 7, 2014. Russia rallied support Friday for a Crimean bid to secede from Ukraine, with a leader of Russia’s parliament assuring her Crimean counterpart that the region would be welcomed as “an absolutely equal subject of the Russian Federation.” Across Red Square, 65,000 people waved Russian flags, chanting “Crimea is Russia!”(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia warns heavier sanctions could backfire

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this image taken Wednesday, March 5, 2014 Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures speaking at his meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow. As a counterweight to the European Union, Russia’s Vladimir Putin is pursuing an ambitious dream rooted in memories of Soviet glory: The Eurasian Union. It’s a strategy to pull former Soviet satellite states back into Moscow’s orbit through a combination of incentives and threats. And embattled Ukraine, a huge country of 46 million people, has lain at the center of the game-plan. (AP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov, Pool)

Putin uses carrot and stick to dominate neighbors

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

**FILE** German Chancellor Adolf Hitler (right) salutes a huge crowd July 31, 1938, at a sports meeting in Breslau, Germany. (Associated Press)

PRUDEN: Likening Putin to Hitler on Ukraine shows Hillary’s shaky grasp of history

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel &quot;Ochakov&quot; from the Black Sea shore outside the town of Myrnyi, western Crimea, Ukraine, Thursday, March 6, 2014. In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the decommissioned ship, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside of the Southern Naval Headquarters located in Myrnyi in Western Crimea as Russian war vessels patrolled just of the coast. The vessel was brought by Russian naval forces on the 4th of March towed by a tug boat while escorted by a warship and several gun boats. Marines from the Ukrainian navy heard a loud explosion in the early hours of last night coming from the vessel blocking a channel leading to the Black Sea. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Crimea to vote to split from Ukraine, join Russia

By YURAS KARMANAU and JUERGEN BAETZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2013 file photo Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. talks to a reporter following a speech in Goose Creek, S.C. The vote could put Senate Republicans in the uncomfortable position of saying no to a politically powerful constituency during an election year. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the bill’s author and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, has gained the endorsement of myriad veterans groups to generate momentum for his bill, which the panel says would cost $21 billion over 10 years. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)

Sen. Lindsey Graham defends linking Obama to Ukraine: ‘It started with Benghazi’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Obama gives the thumbs up while holding a beer.

Obama goes from lame to laughable — in just one week

By Joseph Curl - The Washington Times

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, speaks to students at the University of California Los Angeles campus on the subject of leadership Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Clinton slams Putin, a day after her Hitler remark

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses Russian ambassadors July 9, 2012, during a meeting in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. (Associated Press)

Historian: Valdimir Putin using Peter the Great tactics

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Russian soldiers guard a peer where two Ukrainian naval vessels are moored, in Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Ukraine's new prime minister said Wednesday that embattled Crimea must remain part of Ukraine, but may be granted more local powers. Since last weekend, Russian troops have taken control of much of the peninsula in the Black Sea, where Russian speakers are in the majority. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Crimean lawmakers to vote March 16 on joining Russia

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Rep. Eliot L. Engel, New York Democrat

U.S. urges direct talks between Russia, new Ukraine government

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama slaps Putin with sanctions, restrictions on visas

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times