On March 20, 2014, when Russia's State Duma voted on whether to annex the Ukrainian region of Crimea into Russia, 445 of the Duma's legislators voted yes and one voted no. The "no" was Ilya Ponomarev, a longtime leftist politician and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with journalists shortly after his annual televised phone-in with the nation in central Moscow on April 16.
