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Crimea: A potential flashpoint in Russia-West relations
Apr 12 2009, Sunit

Russia’s emergence as an economic and military superpower since the collapse of the Soviet Union has rattled many a feather in the western bloc, none more so than the United States and her European allies that regard Moscow’s aggressive...

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