they just took it. they took part of another country. a and here's an interesting totalitarian part of that. russia likes to appear as if it is a constitutional democracy. on paper it is. there's not just authoritarian leader vladimir putin now in the 17th year of his reign. there is technically a russian parliament, the duma. the putin used to behave like a parliament but now it does whatever putin wants. and putin does go through the moments,t's like a pageant. so part of h invading and seizing ukraine and saying it's part of russia now, part of that process is he had a russian parliament hold a vote on that. march 20, 2014, they held a vote and surprise the russian parliament voted overwhelmingly to say yes to putin, yes, president putin, yes, take it, take that part of ukraine, annex it, call it russia now. but check this out, look at the