Kremlin saw plan to annex Crimea before Yanukovich fell - newspaper

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin was presented with a plan to annex the Crimea peninsula and eastern Ukraine before the overthrow of the country's Moscow-leaning president last year, an independent newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Novaya Gazeta, an investigative newspaper that is often critical of President Vladimir Putin, published details of what it said was a document presented to the presidential administration some time between Feb. 4 and Feb. 12 last year.