Why China's Olympics matter to Putin

By the time the closing ceremony marked the end of Russia's 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, pro-Russian demonstrators in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula were already out in the streets. Within days, the unidentified "little green men," masked soldiers with hidden insignia, began what became Russian President Vladimir Putin's most brazen violation of international law: the capture and annexation of another country's territory.

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