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LONDON -- Tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats. Russian naval ships showing up as world leaders meet in Australia. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany telling Russia sternly to play by 21st-century rules - and President Vladimir Putin practically spitting fury over Western reaction to his annexation of Crimea. 

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