Russia's War Against Ukraine
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The Guardian: A view on Putin’s Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a video conference on Nov. 12, 2014 in Vladivostok, during the launch of the last out of ten hydropower units of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower Plant damaged in a 2009 accident.
The steady advance of Russian tanks, artillery and troops into the rebel-held Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, documented last week by Nato and independent international observers, is an alarming reminder that the crisis that followed last March's annexation of Crimea is far from over.