Russia is using the crisis to recover the Crimea

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/russia-ukraine-ultimatum-surrender-_n_4889897.html?1393860161&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing8%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D449911

Nikita Krushev gave Ukraine the Crimea as a goodwill gesture on a Ukrainian anniversary... but this was when the two nations were both parts of the USSR.

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