Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Chrystia Freeland: Why Putin is afraid of Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with journalists shortly after his annual televised phone-in with the nation in central Moscow on April 16, 2015.
On March 24 last year, I was in my Toronto kitchen preparing school lunches for my kids when I learned from my Twitter feed that I had been put on the Kremlin's list of Westerners who were banned from Russia. This was part of Russia's retaliation for the sanctions the United States and its allies had slapped on Vladimir Putin's associates after his military intervention in Ukraine.
