Earlier this month, as fighting raged in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian rebels and forces loyal to the Western-backed government in Kyiv, Dmitry Kiselyov, the pugnacious, middle-aged journalist who heads Russia's main state news agency, gazed defiantly into a TV studio camera. 'What is Russia preparing for?' he asked.
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A Russian Navy member stands guard on the deck of the Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great) Russian nuclear-powered missile cruiser docked in the Cypriot port of Limassol, on February 12, 2014.
