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Putin: Military force in Ukraine will be last resort

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President Vladimir Putin says Russia has reserved the right to use all options in Ukraine, but that Moscow would use force only as a last resort.

Ukraine prepares for war after Putin’s ‘declaration’

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Arseny Yatseniuk says the announcement to invade Ukraine made by Russia's Vladimir Putin was not a threat, but "the declaration of war to my country".

Russia wrests control of Ukraine’s Crimea

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has cited a threat to Russian citizens and servicemen at its Black Sea fleet as a need to send in armed forces.

Sochi Olympics kick off with a glitch before fairy tale show

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One Olympic ring failed to unfurl but President Vladmir Putin nonetheless declared Russia's Winter Games open under a burst of fireworks.

Suicide bomber kills at least 13 at Russian train station

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President Vladimir Putin has ordered tighter security from law enforcement agencies after a second bomb exploded in the country in just three days.

Envoys seek UN resolution on Syria amid squabbling

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The US, UK and France want UN-sanctioned use of force should Syria fail to allow destruction of its chemical weapons, but Russia disagrees.

Russia, France at loggerheads over Syria report

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Despite France's sentiments, Russia's foreign minister has said there was no proof that Bashar al-Assad's troops carried out the attack on Damascus.

Fugitive Snowden slips out of Moscow airport for ‘secure’ base

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Fugitive former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden slipped out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after Russia granted him temporary asylum.

Scientists discover ‘new life’ forms below Antarctic ice

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Russia's scientists believe they have discovered new life forms sealed off for millions of years in a subglacial lake deep under the Antarctic ice.

Putin signs ban on US adoptions of Russian children

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President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that bans Americans from adopting Russian children and imposed other sanctions in retaliation.

Russia’s Pussy Riot: Unmasked and on trial

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Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, exposed as the women behind Pussy Riot, are on trial for hooliganism in Russia.

Jailed tycoon claims Pussy Riot trial torture

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Russia's most famous prisoner has likened the Pussy Riot trial to a medieval inquisition and says their prison regime may amount to torture.
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