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“We know what we have to do next...we’ll definitely carry out all the plans we have made," the Russian leader promised.
What is an oligarch? What are humanitarian corridors? What is a no-fly zone?
Three rare white Bengal tigers were born at a safari park in Crimea. Tigers are endangered, with poaching, deforestation and over-hunting of their natural prey making it hard for them to survive in the wild. These white tigers are purposefully bred from a line of tigers with the recessive gene needed to give them their white fur.
He's previously claimed Russia 'does not pose an ideological or systemic challenge'.
There has been a lot of debate in the Western press over whether to supply Ukraine with defensive arms. How to make sense of all the editorialising? Which op-eds and columns should one take seriously? Consider the following questions:
In a statement on 4 March 2014, Foreign Minister William Hague deceived the House of Commons about the legitimacy of the new regime in Ukraine... He led the House to believe that the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, had removed President Yanukovich from power on 22 February in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution.