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Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a congress of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, March 20, 2014. (AP Photo/ Sergei Chirikov, pool)

OWENS: How Obama could beat Putin playing energy geopolitics

By Mackubin Thomas Owens - The Washington Times

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

ISTOOK: It’s morning in Moscow, is it midnight in America?

By Ernest Istook

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

By 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

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

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"Words Will Break Cement" by Masha Gessen.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Words will Break Cement’

By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times

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Franklin Graham: Putin gets a thumbs-up on gay issues, Obama not so much

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Worries about unrest in Ukraine lead to recital

By DAN SPALDING - Associated Press

Russia's President Vladimir Putin addresses the Federation Council in Moscow's Kremlin on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin defended Russia&#8217;s move to annex Crimea, saying that the rights of ethnic Russians have been abused by the Ukrainian government. He pointed at the example of Kosovo&#8217;s independence bid supported by the West, and said that Crimea&#8217;s secession from Ukraine repeated Ukraine&#8217;s own secession from the Soviet Union in 1991. (AP Photo/Sergei Ilnitsky, pool)

Russia signs treaty seizing Crimea

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McFaul: Annexation of Ukraine demands new sanctions on Russia

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Federal Assembly in the Kremlin in Moscow on March 18, 2014. Putin signed a treaty to incorporate Crimea into Russia, describing the move as the restoration of historic injustice and a necessary response to what he called the Western encroachment on Russia’s vital interests. (Associated Press)

NATO allies criticize U.S. for being caught off guard by Russia’s military buildup

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a treaty for Crimea to join Russia during a signing ceremony after his addressing the Federal Assembly in the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a treaty to incorporate Crimea into Russia, describing the move as the restoration of historic injustice and a necessary response to what he called the Western encroachment on Russia’s vital interests.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin signs treaty to add Crimea to map of Russia

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

From left, Olena Grygorii, Taras Firman, and Igor Ivaskiv, all native of Ternopil, western Ukraine, join Ukrainians and their supporters at a rally to protest Russian President Putin's "invasion of Ukraine and aggression in the region" Thursday, March 6, 2014, in front of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama declared Thursday that a referendum in 10 days on the future of a Ukraine's Crimea peninsula would violate international law. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

LAMBRO: U.S. sanctions on Russia over Crimea incursion are toothless

By Donald Lambro

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

POPADIUK: Putin’s Crimea takeaway

By Roman Popadiuk

**FILE** Mikhail Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, speaks March 6, 2014, to a pro-Ukraine rally while walking through Dublin on his way to the convention center. Saakashvili arrived to participate in the European People's Party Congress. About 2,000 delegates gathered at Dublin to attend the congress. (Associated Press)

Ex-Georgian leader warns: Putin won’t stop at Ukraine

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, July 16, 2013, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, flanked by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, uses binocular as he watches military exercise near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on Sakhalin Island, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service, Pool)

Putin to sanction McCain, Durbin, White House officials: report

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

North Carolina editorial roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

** FILE ** Rep. Christopher Murphy, Connecticut Democrat. (Associated Press)

Sen. Murphy: Putin ‘making this up as we go along’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks about Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014, in the briefing room of 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/ Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s chickens roosting in Ukraine

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES