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Russia then annexed Crimea and backed insurgents in bloody fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Russia then annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and backed insurgents in bloody fighting in eastern Ukraine.

A former Russian government minister, once a governor in illegally annexed Crimea, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for breaching UK sanctions.

A former Russian government minister - who was once a governor in illegally annexed Crimea - has been found guilty of breaching UK sanctions in the first case of its kind.

Vance, Greenland and Canada have everything to gain and nothing to lose from being annexed to the United States.