SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - When President Vladimir Putin flew into the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol in Crimea last year, he made a pilgrimage to several sites associated with Russia's tumultuous history.
Clad in a sombre dark suit, he laid a wreath at an imposing Soviet World War Two memorial, visited a cathedral regarded as the cradle of Russian Christianity, and inspected Russia's Black Sea Fleet, recalling its Tsarist and Soviet-era glory.
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