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FILE - This March 20, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama making a statement on Ukraine, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington. Even if Russia makes no further advances into Ukraine, can the West’s relationship with Moscow go back to business as usual? That’s the complex question underlying President Barack Obama’s discussions in Europe this week, one that poses particular challenges for the U.S. leader, whose foreign policy agenda has seemingly inextricable links to Russia. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Analysis: Russia deeply linked to Obama priorities

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

President Barack Obama is greeted by Belgian King Phillippe, left, and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo upon his arrival on Air Force One at Brussels International Airport, Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. Obama is visiting Brussels to attend European Union and NATO summits. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama prods allies while downplaying Russian power

By Jim Kuhnhenn - Associated Press

This photo taken March 20, 2014 shows President Barack Obama speaking in Orlando, Fla. Foreign policy used to stand out as a not-so-bleak spot in the public’s waning assessment of Barack Obama. Not anymore. He’s getting low marks for handling Russia’s swoop into Ukraine, and more Americans than ever disapprove of the way Obama is doing his job, according to a new poll. Close to 9 out of 10 Americans support sanctions as a response to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. They are divided over whether the U.S. sanctions so far are about right or not strong enough, the Associated Press-GfK poll found. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Poll: Ukraine crisis hurting Obama at home

By CONNIE CASS and JENNIFER AGIESTA - Associated Press

Despite chill, cooperation between US and Russia

By LARA JAKES and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 2010 photo released on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin carries a hunting rifle during his trip in Ubsunur Hollow in the Siberian Tyva region (also referred to as Tuva), on the border with Mongolia, Russia. Vladimir Putin turns 60-years old on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012, and has recently sought to demonstrate his youthful vigor by many personal endeavors, but while he has shown creativity in his action-man stunts, the Russian president seems surprisingly vulnerable to the vagaries of oil prices. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Government Press Service, file)

Inside the Ring: U.S. fears Russia planning to federalize Ukraine, alarming Congress

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Ukrainian tanks are transported from their base in Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Ukraine has started withdrawing its troops and weapons from Crimea, now controlled by Russia. Even if Russia makes no further advances into Ukraine, can the West’s relationship with Moscow go back to business as usual? That’s the complex question underlying President Barack Obama’s discussions in Europe this week, one that poses particular challenges for the U.S. leader, whose foreign policy agenda has seemingly inextricable links to Russia.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

6 Ukrainian officers freed by Russia; 5 captive

By PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

President Barack Obama Obama, accompanied by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, speaks during their joint news conference at the conclusion of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama doubts Russian retreat in Ukraine, threatens tougher sanctions

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

CAS upholds disqualification of Dnipro

Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CARSON: Expanding our energy resources serves peace

By Ben S. Carson

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: How the Obama doctrine reveals the president’s weakness

By James A. Lyons

Activists stand guard during a pro Russian rally at a central square in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, March 23, 2014. About 5,000 people demonstrated in Donetsk in favor of holding a referendum on secession and absorption into Russia similar to Crimea's. A statue of Lenin, Soviet Union's first president, is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine orders troop pullout from Crimea

By LAURA MILLS and PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

Ukraine’s parliament accepts resignation of defense minister as troops withdraw from Crimea

Associated Press

A Ukrainian marine reacts as his comrades leave the base in Feodosia, Crimea, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. In Crimea, Ukrainian soldiers piled onto buses and began their journey to Ukrainian territory on Tuesday, as former comrades saluted them from outside a base overrun by Russian forces. (AP Photo/Valeriy Kulyk)

Busloads of Ukrainian troops leave Crimea

By Adam Pemble and Peter Leonard - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, center, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, attend the opening session of the Nuclear Summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Herman, POOL)

Obama’s Russia sanctions unlikely to make impact, experts say

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, center rear, gathered with G7 world leaders clockwise from center left, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014, in the sidelines of the Nuclear security Summit. In a day of delicate diplomacy he sought to rally the international community Monday around efforts to isolate Russia following its incursion into Ukraine. Nuclear terrorism was the official topic as Obama and other world leaders streamed in to a convention center in The Hague for a two-day Nuclear Security Summit. But the real focus was on a hurriedly scheduled meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized economies to address the crisis in Ukraine on the sidelines of the nuclear summit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, POOL)

U.S., Ukraine refuse to recognize Russia’s seizure of Crimea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Chicago, Moscow sister-relationship at question

Associated Press

In this photo taken with a fisheye lens and long exposure, the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-12M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) blasts off over an antenna at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Steven Swanson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Russian rocket launches with American on board

By DMITRY LOVETSKY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2013, file photo Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. speaks at a news conference and Capitol Hill in Washington. Lithuania's energy minister pleaded with U.S. officials Tuesday to release natural gas resources into the world market to counter Russian influence in his country across Europe. Lithuania is completely dependent on Russia for natural gas and pays 30 percent more than other European countries, the energy minister told senators at a hearing Tuesday. &quot;This is not just unfair. This is abuse.'' Landrieu held the hearing Tuesday _ her first hearing as chair of the Senate energy panel _ to focus on economic and foreign policy benefits of exporting natural gas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Senate hears pleas for gas exports to Europe

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, as they pose for a group photo on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Obama expresses concern Russia moving on Ukraine

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press