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The West condemned the move as an illegal annexation and imposed sanctions on Moscow.
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The West condemned the seizure as an illegal annexation and imposed sanctions on Moscow.
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Many Papuans regard the Indonesian takeover as an illegal annexation.
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Palestinians consider such a step as illegal annexation of occupied land they seek for a future state.
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Palestinians consider such a step to be the illegal annexation of occupied land they seek for a future state.
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The sanctions were introduced last year, to reinforce the EU's opposition to Russia's illegal annexation of the two territories in March 2014.
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But Russia remains firmly in control of Crimea, and its illegal annexation now appears set to become an established fact of life.
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Western leaders queued up hungrily for a piece of Russia's president following his armed intervention in Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea.
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Russia this year established semi-official ties with the separatists and boosted it peacekeeping contingents, steps Tbilisi said were an illegal annexation of its territory.
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Israel accelerated its " illegal annexation" of East Jerusalem last year through municipal and security policies that discriminated against Palestinian residents, an EU report said.