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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, after a Democratic caucus luncheon. Reid said Democrats are likely to remove a major roadblock preventing Congress from passing legislation authorizing sanctions on Russia and providing aid to Ukraine. He added that it appears that Democrats have agreed on a way to move the legislation forward without a provision affecting the International Monetary Fund. He says he feels strongly about IMF reforms, but that it’s important to assist Ukraine and hit Russia with sanctions over its military incursion into Crimea. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Crimean retirees line up to get their pensions in Russian rubles inside a post office in Simferopol, Crimea, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. The Crimean authorities began paying pensions in rubles following the Ukrainian region's annexation by Russia. (AP Photo/Alexander Polegenko)
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, third from top right corner, watches as U.S. President Barack Obama, second left front row, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, gesturing, talk when posing for a family photo on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, POOL)
