SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev flaunted Russia's grip on Crimea by flying to the region and holding a government meeting there on Monday, angering Ukraine and defying Western demands to hand the peninsula back to Kiev.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Reuters: Medvedev angers Ukraine by visiting Crimea
Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (back C) watches Russian troops parading as he takes part in a wreath laying ceremony at a Memorial the 1941-1942 Heroic Defence of Sevastopol during the World War II in Sevastopol, March 31, 2014. Medvedev visited today Crimea, the first Russian leader to travel to the Black Sea region after Moscow seized it from Ukraine. AFP PHOTO / RIA-NOVOSTI /POOL / ALEXANDER ASTAFYEV
