RUSSIA-UKRAINE-POLITICS-CRISIS-EU-US-PUTIN

RUSSIA-UKRAINE-POLITICS-CRISIS-EU-US-PUTIN

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (2nd R), Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov (L), Crimean parliament speaker Vladimir Konstantinov (2nd L) and Alexei Chaly, Sevastopol’s new de facto mayor (R), join hands after signing a treaty on the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula becoming part of Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow on March 18, 2014. AFP PHOTO/POOL / SERGEI ILNITSKY