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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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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)
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In this March 21, 2014, photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin signs bills making Crimea part of Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow. U.S. sanctions against a Russian bank and the Kremlin's inner circle have pinched Moscow, but if the goal is to get Putin to roll his forces out of Crimea or prevent him from doing any more land grabs, their effectiveness remains in doubt. Putin has mocked the punitive steps President Barack Obama has taken so far in their post-Cold War game of chess _ or chicken. (AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool)
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In this March 21, 2014, photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin signs bills making Crimea part of Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow. U.S. sanctions against a Russian bank and the Kremlin's inner circle have pinched Moscow, but if the goal is to get Putin to roll his forces out of Crimea or prevent him from doing any more land grabs, their effectiveness remains in doubt. Putin has mocked the punitive steps President Barack Obama has taken so far in their post-Cold War game of chess _ or chicken. (AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a signing ceremony of bills making Crimea part of Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, March 21, 2014. President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea on Friday, signing the peninsula into Russia at nearly the same time his Ukrainian counterpart sealed a deal pulling his country closer into Europe's orbit. (AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool)
