A storm of outrage broke across the Russian media, intensified by Slavophile fury fuelled by solidarity with orthodox, South Slav "little brothers" in the annexed provinces.
This week, after an uproar over Israel's plans to build 300 new Jewish homes on West Bank land that it annexed to Jerusalem in 1980 actions that are widely regarded abroad as illegal—Haim Ramon, Mr Olmert's deputy, said that Israel would give up some other annexed neighbourhoods where Palestinians live.
Getting into the city from the airport is usually arduous and expensive: think of Heathrow, on the western edge of greater London, or O'Hare, along Chicago's northwestern fringes, connected to its city by a narrow, annexed strip of land.
Since then, Russia has annexed the Crimean peninsula and the east of the country has been convulsed by civil conflict, possibly spurred by Russian intelligence and logistical support, but now taking on a life of its own.
In places, anglers have annexed enormous stretches and canoeists face a fight to open up new waters.
Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula in March despite fierce opposition from many Western governments.
Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said events were following the same pattern as in the Black Sea peninsula, where unidentified military forces took over government installations before the area was in effect annexed last month.
Poroshenko is visiting Australia for the first time since he was elected president in May, two months after Russian-backed forces annexed Crimea, and two months before a passenger jet carrying 298 people was shot down over Donetsk.
The trauma deepened as, within a few short decades, Algeria was not given the status of a colony but annexed into France.
Vova, you're wrong!" Another tweet read: "#CrimeaIsNotOurs please retweet," playing on the Russian-language hashtag #CrimeaIsOurs that became popular after Moscow annexed the Ukrainian peninsula.
Moldova became a Soviet republic in 1940 after Moscow annexed the Black Sea territory of Bessarabia.
