Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) Ka puta anō a Vladimir Putin, ka mahia e ia i runga i te kāhua - me tētahi āhuatanga i roto i tō kanohi. I haere te Perehitini o Rūhia ki tētahi konohete nui i Moscow's Red Square i te Wenerei ki te whakanui i te tau tuatahi o te whakaurunga o tana whenua ki te rohe o Ukraine o Crimea, he mahi i whakahehia e te nuinga o te hapori o te ao hei ture. Ko Putin anake kāore e kīia he tāpiri. E kīia ana e ia he whakakotahitanga. E ai ki te paetukutuku a te perehitini, i tae atu a Putin ki te konohete me te hui "We're Together!" e whakanui ana i te tau tuatahi o te whakakotahitanga o Crimea me Sevastopol me Russia. " I uru te peninsula ki te Soviet Union i te tau 1917, whai muri i te Russian Revolution. Engari i te tau 1991, i muri i te wehenga o te Soviet Union, ka uru atu ki te Ukraine motuhake hou. I te Poutu-te-rangi 16, 2014, i whakahaerehia e Crimea he pooti mo te haere tonu hei waahanga o Ukraine, ki te maka ranei i tana rota ki te Russian Federation. He nui te hua, i te iti rawa i roto i te hunga i pōti: 95% i mea e hiahia ana ratou ki te riro i te wahi o Russia. E rua noa iho nga ra i muri mai, ka uru atu a Rūhia ki te rohe. I mea a Putin i muri mai kua whakamaherehia e ia te nekehanga i mua i te whakatutukitanga o te pooti. "E hoa!" te peresideni i mea i roto i te Square Whero i runga i te Wenerei, rite ki tona paetukutuku, "Tino kotahi tau ki muri, Russia, e korero tatou na nui tika inaianei, me te iwi Russian whakakitea tahi mīharo me te aroha whenua i roto i te tautoko i te wawata o te iwi o te Crimea me Sevastopol ki te hoki ki to ratou takutai taketake". Ko te take, i kii ia, ko "to tatou hitori, to tatou wairua me to tatou kawanatanga, nga mea e hanga ana i a tatou hei iwi kotahi me te iwi kotahi". Ka whai wāhi atu hoki, e ai ki te pae tukutuku, ko "ngā rōpū waiata me ngā kaiwaiata rongonui o Rūhia". I ngaro a Putin i te tirohanga mo nga ra 10 kaore he whakamarama, i te wa i whakakorea ai nga huihuinga maha. I puta mai ia i te Mane anake. Kia kore ai tetahi e ruarua kei te whakahaere tonu ia, ko Putin, e whakapehapeha ana ki a ia ano mo tana tinana, kua whakaatuhia he momo uaua rereke i tenei wiki - te momo hoia. I whakakaha ia...
Kei te haere a Putin ki te konohete i Red Square ki te whakanui i te huritau o te whakaurunga o Crimea. E ai ki ngā pūrongo a NATO he waka rererangi hōia a Rūhia kei runga i te Moana o Baltic.