USSR 2.0: "Russia has defended its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by arguing it has the right to protect Russian-speakers outside its borders..."

Moscow signals concern for Russians in Estonia

BY ROBERT EVANS

GENEVA Wed Mar 19, 2014 

"Russia has defended its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by arguing it has the right to protect Russian-speakers outside its borders, so the reference to linguistic tensions in another former Soviet republic comes at a highly sensitive moment."

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