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Russian forces have completed their takeover of the Ukrainian navy’s assets in Crimea with the storming of the minesweeper Cherkessy.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper continued his withering attacks on Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Crimea when he accused him of being a “throwback” to the USSR.

Mr. Harper told an audience of German businessmen Wednesday that “I don’t really see it as a new Cold War” but “as unfortunate as it sounds, it’s increasingly apparent to me that the Cold War has never left Vladimir Putin’s mind.”

What Russia had done by sending its army into Crimea is “a throwback” to an earlier time, the prime minister said during his third stop on a week-long tour of Europe that began in Kyiv last Saturday.