Tens of thousands of people have celebrated, with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the first anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
The festivities came a year to the day since the Russian president signed a treaty integrating Crimea, on 18 March 2014.
The president told the crowd outside the Kremlin that the move was to protect ethnic Russians and regain the nation's "historic roots".
"We realised that the question of Crimea is not just a question of territory, even territory of…
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