MOSCOW — When Vladimir V. Putin returned to the Russian presidency in 2012, one of the first messages he sent to his political elite, many of them heads of banks and large corporations, was that the times had changed: Owning assets outside Russia makes you too vulnerable to moves by foreign governments, he told them. It is time to bring your wealth home.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Members of the new pro-Russian forces dubbed the \"military forces of the autonomous republic of Crimea\" stand at the gate, adorned with a Russian flag, of Simferopol's republican military enlistment complex on March 10, 2014. Crimea's pro-Russian authorities sought to boost their claim to break from Ukraine Monday as volunteer soldiers swore an oath of allegiance in front of prime minister Sergei Aksyonov. He told journalists 186 volunteers had so far joined the new Crimean \"self-defence\" units after pro-Moscow forces took power in the region and announced their intention to join with Russia, with a referendum planned for Sunday. AFP PHOTO/Filippo MONTEFORTE
