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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting with Mikhail Fedotov, head of presidential human rights council, in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Putin asked Fedotov to help coordinate assistance for refugees from Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin a ‘megalomaniac’ who must be challenged with force: Sen. Johnson

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

White House says Russia ‘losing’ war in Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This, July 16, 2014, file photo shows Russia's President Vladimir Putin as he arrives for an official group photo during the BRICS summit at the Itamaraty palace, in Brasilia, Brazil. Months after Russia annexed Crimea and stepped up support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, Europe and the U.S. are still searching for an effective way to persuade Putin to change course. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File )

HOLMES: What’s at stake in Ukraine?

By Kim R. Holmes

** FILE ** Pro-Russian rebels, right, followed by members of the OSCE mission, walk by plane wreckage as they arrive for a media briefing at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. A team of Malaysian investigators visited the site along with members of the OSCE mission for the first time since last week's crash. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

HAYDEN: Intelligence, evidence and the case against Russia

By Mike Hayden

A shopper ties a message note for the victims of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, at a shopping mall in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, July 24, 2014. At least 51 containers holding bodies and body parts of victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash are expected to depart for the Netherlands aboard two military transport planes, the Ukrainian government said late on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Dutch receiving Malaysia plane bodies irked at Putin’s daughter in Holland

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Vladimir Putin Illustration by Gado/Daily Nation, Nairobi, Kenya

CANNON: With Russia, different airline crash, same results

By Lucja Swiatkowski Cannon

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Investigate airliner downing, but not Benghazi?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican. (Associated Press photographs)

Chambliss: Downed jet ultimately goes back to Putin

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during arrivals for the G-20 summit at the Konstantin Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. Congress is stepping up pressure on the White House to confront Russia over allegations that it is cheating on a key nuclear arms treaty, a faceoff that could further strain U.S.-Moscow relations and dampen President Barack Obama's hopes to add deeper cuts in nuclear arsenals to his legacy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Putin calls for cease-fire in Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during a mission July 5, 2014, in Gereshk, Helmand province, Afghanistan. U.S. Marine Corps photo.

Obama orders Pentagon advisers to Ukraine

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in Samara, Russia, Monday, July 21, 2014. Putin has lambasted those who use the downing of a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine for "mercenary objectives," the Kremlin said Monday. In a statement posted on the Kremlin website, Putin again lashed out at Ukraine for ongoing violence with pro-Russian rebels in the eastern part of the country. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Madeleine Albright: Vladimir Putin ‘caught in the web of his own lies’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, sits in an aircraft cockpit the Progress State Research and Production Space Centre (also known as TsSKB-Progress) in Samara, Russia, Monday, July 21, 2014. Putin has lambasted those who use the downing of a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine for "mercenary objectives," the Kremlin said Monday. In a statement posted on the Kremlin website, Putin again lashed out at Ukraine for ongoing violence with pro-Russian rebels in the eastern part of the country. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Obama: Putin must force separatist cooperation with probe of Malaysian flight crash

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A difficult duty: The stench of death was nearly overwhelming Monday as Alexander Hug (center right), deputy head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, led a forensics investigation team near the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine. (Associated Press)

Vladimir Putin pressured to aid Ukraine plane crash probe, rein in rebels

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This March 11, 2014, file photo shows Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, speaking to reporters after an all-member classified briefing on Ukraine on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Rep. Ed Royce: International community must take a stand against Vladimir Putin

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, Texas Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

McCaul: Putin responsible for downed flight

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Pat Larracas of Los Angeles walks through the third level of Airforce One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif. (Garrett Cheen/Special to The Washington Times)

Feinstein to Putin: ‘Man up’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times