http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26248275
This article is very important to read. For those of you who do not know much about the issue between Russia and Ukraine, would benefit from glancing this over. Basically, Ukraine broke away from the USSR in 1991 and still has close ties to Russia. Ukraine feels as if they are not truly free from Russia, since there are rumors of pro-russian officials rigging the presidential elections. Later, Russia tries to help out Ukraine buy paying off $15 billion of Ukraine's debt in exchange for cheaper gas prices. After a lot of protest and political turmoil in Ukraine, the political system starts to slowly fall apart and Russia moves into get involved. Next thing you know Russia is talking about taking back the Crimean peninsula. On top of that, Russia has troops there trying to take over. Russia denies that the troops there are attempting to take anything over and are simply there for defensive purposes. Now, there are planned talks to resolve this and plans to place sanctions on Russia if they do not comply.
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