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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a Council of Physical Fitness and Sports in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte addresses the media, ahead of the March 24 and 25 Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Sunday, March 23, 2014. The Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague will form the backdrop for an emergency meeting of Group of Seven leaders on Russia's annexation of Crimea. It's a confrontation between Russia and the West reminiscent of the Cold War. (AP Photo/Freek van den Bergh, POOL)

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, arrives at Schiphol Amsterdam airport, Netherlands, Sunday March 23, 2014, one day ahead of the March 24 and 25 Nuclear Security Summit. (AP Photo/Sean Gallup, Pool)

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In this photo taken on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and businessman and billionaire Arkady Rotenberg, right, mourn during the farewell ceremony of Putin's first judo coach, Anatoly Rakhlin in St. Petersburg, Russia. President Barack Obama on Thursday expanded U.S. economic sanctions against Moscow over its actions in Ukraine, targeting President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff and 19 other individuals as well as a Russian bank that provides them support. Those named in the sanctions Thursday, March 20, 2014, include Arkady Rotenberg lifelong Putin friend whose company has amassed billions of dollars in government contracts. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)