Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast on April 26 that he had no regrets over Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and that it was righting a historical injustice. "I think we did the right thing and I don't regret a thing," Putin said of his decision to take back the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine, interviewed in a state television documentary.
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Agence France-Presse: Putin says ‘no regrets’ over Crimea annexation
Pro-Kremlin activists take part in a rally and a concert by the Kremlin Wall in central Moscow on March 18, 2015, to mark one year since Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed off on the annexation of Crimea.