Putin makes such tough demands on the United States and NATO that it is not possible to meet them. He calls for a reversal of security policy developments in Europe over the past three decades.
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It is rare that dry minutes from courts attract attention. A recent ruling by the district court in Rostov in southern Russia struck like a bomb.
The background is that Russian soldiers invaded the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in 2014. The soldiers were masked and wore uniforms without badges. Putin denied that they were Russian, and he claimed that they were local self-defense groups. That was not true.
Putin later admitted that he had ordered several weeks earlier to take the peninsula, which Russia annexed in March 2014.
Shortly afterwards, a war broke out in eastern Ukraine. Putin has consistently claimed that Russia does not have troops there. Now a Russian court has come up with startling information.
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