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Pro-Russian troops control a ferry terminal on the easternmost tip of Ukraine's Crimea region just 12 miles from Russia, intensifying fears that Moscow will send even more troops into the strategic Black Sea region. (Associated Press)

Moscow shakes up the financial world

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Feb. 28, 2014, file-pool photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin during his working meetings at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti Presidential Press Service, Alexei Nikolsky, File-Pool)

Invasion of Ukraine isn’t Putin’s only option

By LYNN BERRY - Associated Press

Demonstrators against Russian military actions in Ukraine rally in Times Square, Sunday, March 2, 2014, in New York. Western powers are prepared &quot;to go to the hilt&quot; to isolate Russia for its military incursion into Ukraine, &quot;an incredible act of aggression&quot; that may lead to visa bans, asset freezes, trade and investment penalties, and a boycott of a Russian-hosted economic summit of global powers in June, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

US, Europeans try to rally Western front vs Russia

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

Ukrainians living in Italy protest outside the Russian embassy, in Rome, Monday, March 3, 2014. Demonstrators condemned Russian military actions in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Biden urges Russian PM to withdraw troops from Ukraine

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

US: Russia threat to Ukraine navy would be ‘dangerous escalation;’ Moscow would be responsible

Associated Press

Local residents gather outside the Ukrainian naval base headquarters in the town of Novo-Ozerne, some 90 km west of the Crimean capital Simferopol, Ukraine, on Monday March 3, 2014. For years, the little Crimean town was closed off from the rest of the world, a secretive community, at the edge of a key Soviet naval base, sealed by roadblocks and armed guards. There’s not much in town anymore. But the Russians want it. And the little forgotten town is now sharply divided, torn between those who welcomed the arrival here over the weekend of dozens of Russian soldiers wearing unmarked uniforms, and those who back the Ukrainians who are refusing to surrender their weapons. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Crisis in Crimea sharply divides small town

By TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Unidentified gunmen stand outside entrance to the General Staff Headquarters of the Ukrainian Navy in Sevastopol, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014. Pro-Russian soldiers seem to further cement their control over the strategic region, that also houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet, by seizing a ferry terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kerch about 20 kilometers (12 miles) by boat to Russia, intensifying fears that Moscow will send even more troops into the peninsula. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)

Russia sets Ukraine agenda with diplomacy, threats

By DAVID McHUGH and DALTON BENNETT - Associated Press

Pentagon suspends military engagements with Russia

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Western NY Ukrainians keep tabs on growing crisis

Associated Press

Jared Leto poses in the press room with the award for best actor in a supporting role for &quot;Dallas Buyers Club&quot; during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2, 2014, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Lizz Winstead: Jared Leto snubbed ‘transpeople’ for Ukraine in Oscar speech

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, listens to Gen. Ivan Buvaltsev, right, as they observe a military exercise near St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, March 3, 2014. pro-Russian troops held all Ukrainian border posts Monday in Crimea, as well as all military facilities and a key ferry terminal, cementing their stranglehold on the strategic Ukrainian peninsula. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

PRUDEN: Playing the chicken in Kiev

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question regarding the ongoing situation in the Ukraine, during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, March 3, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama warns U.S. may retaliate against Russia with economic sanctions

By Dave Boyer and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian soldiers block the Ukrainian naval base in the village of Novoozerne, some 91 km west of Crimean capital Simferopol, Ukraine, on Monday, March 3, 2014. Ukraine says Russian forces controlling the strategic region of Crimea are demanding that the crew of two Ukrainian warships in Sevastopol's harbor must surrender. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

A look at Russian, Ukrainian militaries

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this June 15, 2013, file photo, Sarah Palin speaks during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority 2013 conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Sarah Palin: I predicted Ukraine crisis

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Holguin at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, as Kerryopened a fourth round of the U.S.-Colombia High-Level Partnership Dialogue. Kerry said he had called Russia's foreign minister to express US concerns over military activity in Crimea that could further inflame tensions in Ukraine following the ouster of its Russian-backed president.&#160;(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Kerry: All options on the table to respond to Russian invasion of Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Ukraine's Ambassador to NATO Ihor Dolhov adjusts the microphones prior to speaking during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Sunday, March 2, 2014. NATO is called emergency talks on Sunday regarding the escalating crisis in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

US prepares tough response for Russia over Ukraine

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Fyodor Andreyev, president of the Alrosa diamond mining company in the Novo-Ogaryovo presidential residence outside Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Putin on Wednesday ordered massive exercises involving most of its military units in western Russia amid tensions in Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Metzel, Presidential Press Service)

ORTEL: A czar rises in Russia, as Putin humiliates Obama

By Charles Ortel

Louisville group helps Ukrainian orphans

Associated Press

A Russian convoy moves from Sevastopol to Sinferopol in the Crimea, Ukraine, Sunday, March 2, 2014. A convoy of hundreds of Russian troops headed toward the regional capital of Ukraine's Crimea region on Sunday, a day after Russia's forces took over the strategic Black Sea peninsula without firing a shot. The new government in Kiev has been powerless to react. Ukraine's parliament was meeting Sunday in a closed session. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

World scrambles as Russia tightens grip on Crimea

By TIM SULLIVAN and DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2013, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, by National Security Agency Gen. Keith B. Alexander. Al-Qaida&#8217;s Afghanistan leader is laying the groundwork to relaunch his war-shattered organization once the United States and international forces withdraw from the country, as they have warned they will do without a security agreement from the Afghan government, U.S. officials say. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Rep. Rogers: Putin’s playing chess while Obama, U.S. playing ‘marbles’

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times