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　　Hello and welcome. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Its time to improve your American English while you learn about our world ...As It Is. Today we will ask the experts. Russian leader Vladimir Putin has taken over Crimea. Why did he do it?

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　　Russia has taken complete control of Ukraines Crimean peninsula. Now, observers are debating what led Russian President Vladimir Putin to make such a move.

　　Western nations have called Russias occupation of Crimea illegal. Robert Legvold is a professor at Columbia University in New York City. He says the occupation shows President Putin wants to be remembered by future generations of Russians.

　　From his point of view, it would be a far more substantial legacy than Sochi Olympics, which everybody has been talking about as something that he wanted to be his legacy. But to have brought Crimea back into the historical place that it has had in the fold of Mother Russia, I think he sees this probably the single most important thing that he will accomplish as president.

　　Professor Legvold says Mr. Putin believes he is correcting what he sees as the historical injustice of 1954. That was when then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave control of Crimea to Ukraine, which was then a Soviet republic.