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What is the reason for the current territorial disputes between Russia and Ukraine?  What is the main reasons Putin wants control of Crimea and eastern Ukraine?  What territories did the USSR annex between 1941 and 1991, and what other ones have been added to Russia under the Putin administration?  Who might be next?  The speaker will be Dr. Philip Pryde, professor emeritus at SDSU, who has written three books about the Soviet Union, and has spent time in 13 of the 15 former Soviet republics.