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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 2 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2003 file photo Russian businessman Yuri Borisov speaks in Vilnius, Lithuania. Yuri Borisov’s performance on a lucrative U.S. military contract was dismal. Cost overruns. Blown deadlines. Forged paperwork. Yet that didn’t keep the Russian entrepreneur from winning more business with the Department of Defense, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press. Borisov, who specializes in refurbishing Russian Mi-17 helicopters, had an ally in Bert Vergez, an Army colonel who ran an obscure DOD acquisition office in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)
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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 2 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - This May 13, 2013 file photo shows a Mi-17 helicopter used by the Afghan Air Force at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Yuri Borisov’s performance on a lucrative U.S. military contract was dismal. Cost overruns. Blown deadlines. Forged paperwork. Yet that didn’t keep the Russian entrepreneur from winning more business with the Department of Defense, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press. Borisov, who specializes in refurbishing Russian Mi-17 helicopters, had an ally in Bert Vergez, an Army colonel who ran an obscure DOD acquisition office in Huntsville, Ala. (AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall, File)
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Crimean Tatars clash with a police officer , left, in front of a local government building in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. About 20,000 Muslim Tatars who rallied in support of the interim government clashed with a smaller pro-Russian rally. Fistfights broke out between pro- and anti-Russian demonstrators in Ukraine's strategic Crimea region on Wednesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered massive military exercises just across the border. (AP PhotoAndrew Lubimov)
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From left, defense ministers, Albania's Mimi Kodheli, Netherland's Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, Norway's Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide and Italy's Roberta Pinotti pose for photographers prior to the start of a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, U.S. President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this year. But Obama is also holding out hope that Afghanistan's next president may eventually sign a stalled security agreement that could prevent the U.S. from having to take that step. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
