MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said on March 18 his country, hit by Western economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, would overcome all difficulties from outside.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Reuters: Putin says Russia will overcome all difficulties
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 in a epochal shift that ruptured ties with Ukraine and the West.
