Too Close for Comfort

Tense stand off outside airbase in Crimea between Russians and Ukranian soldiers:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000002749138/confrontation…

Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is a longtime Commonweal contributor.

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