Laura Mills

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Russian economy hit by Ukraine turmoil

Laura Mills · April 16, 2014 3:25 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a Cabinet meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. President Vladimir Putin has threatened that Russia's state-owned gas company could ask Ukraine to pay for gas in advance, according to Russian state news agencies. In a meeting Wednesday with government ministers, Putin said that asking for advance payments "corresponded with the contract" between Ukraine and Russia, but asked that state energy giant Gazprom refrain from such drastic measures until "additional consultations" between both sides. From right, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Pool)

A look at Ukraine’s fast-growing Russian gas bill

Laura Mills · April 11, 2014 5:04 pm

In this photo taken Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Viktor Levchenko, 36, a patient of treatment for drug addiction, poses at a bus stop with an advert reading "Rehabilitation of drug and alcohol addicts" in Sevastopol, Crimea. Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs, seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the AIDS-causing virus. After Russia's annexation of Crimea methadone was banned. The ban could undermine years of efforts to reduce the spread of AIDS in Crimea. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Crimea side-effect: Addicts deprived of methadone

Laura Mills · April 4, 2014 6:55 am

Crimean Tatars greet Russia's top Muslim Cleric Ravil Gainutdin, foreground right, during the Crimean Tatar Qurultay, a religious congress, in Bakhchysarai, Crimea, Saturday, March 29, 2014. The Crimean Tatar Qurultay, a religious congress will determine whether the Tatars will accept Russian citizenship and the political system that comes with it, or remain Ukrainian citizens on Russian soil. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Crimea’s Tatars condemn annexation, seek autonomy

Laura Mills · March 29, 2014 7:26 pm

Land key as Crimea’s Tatars discuss future plans

Laura Mills · March 28, 2014 4:03 pm

Crimea besieged by Ukraine control of power, water

Laura Mills · March 26, 2014 12:31 pm

Thousands march in Moscow to protest Crimea vote

Laura Mills · March 15, 2014 2:40 pm

More than ten thousand pro-Kremlin demonstrators many holding Russian flags march in central Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 2, 2014 to express support for the latest developments in Russian-Ukrainian relations. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Thousands march in pro-invasion rally in Moscow

Laura Mills · March 2, 2014 3:30 pm

Ukraine's fugitive president Viktor Yanukovych speaks at a news conference in Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Moscow, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Ukrainian fugitive president appears for first time since Saturday at Russia news conference. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Yanukovych: I won’t ask for military assistance

Laura Mills · February 28, 2014 2:42 pm

Member of the Pussy Riot punk group, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, center, speaks to a police officer outside Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, where hearings started against opposition activists detained on May 6, 2012 during the rally at Bolotnaya Square. A Moscow judge on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, convicted eight anti-government protesters of rioting during a 2012 protest against Vladimir Putin, following a trial seen as part of the Kremlin's efforts to stifle dissent. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Moscow court sends 7 to prison for protest rally

Laura Mills · February 24, 2014 6:54 pm

Defendants stand in a glass cage during a trial in Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. The defendants face trial for their role in a protest in Moscow on May 6, 2012 that ended in violent clashes with police. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

8 Russians convicted over 2012 anti-Putin protest

Laura Mills · February 21, 2014 5:50 pm

Trade ban has Russia’s knickers in a twist

Laura Mills · February 17, 2014 8:35 pm