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Why Crimea? A Primer On The Current Ukraine Crisis

KUOW | By Posey Gruener
Published March 3, 2014 at 2:03 PM AKST
AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic
Ukrainian soldiers stand guard at the gate of a military base in the port of Kerch, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014.

Steve Scher talks with Chris Woolf, news editor for The World, about how the history and geopolitics of the Crimean Peninsula play into the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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