G7 leaders will hold talks on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in The Hague on Monday (24 March) to consider their response to Russia annexing Crimea, isolating Moscow, which is due to take over the rotating G8 presidency. Since the emergency 1-hour meeting was announced last Tuesday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has signed laws completing Russia's annexation of the peninsula on the Black Sea and his troops seized a Ukrainian airbase there. In what has become the biggest confrontation between the East and West since the Cold War, the United States and the European Union have imposed sanctions targeting ... (full story)