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In 2014, Milne attended<ref name="Wilby160416"/><ref name="Times021115">{{cite news|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4602177.ece|title=Welcome to Sochi, comrade Milne|work=The Times|location=London|date=2 November 2015|accessdate=15 January 2016}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="Edwardes"/><ref name="Judah"/> the [[Valdai Discussion Club]] conference in [[Sochi]], where he conducted a discussion in 2014 with Putin and former French prime minister [[Dominique de Villepin]], opening a session there entitled "New Rules or No Rules in the Global Order".<ref name="Times021115"/> His expenses were paid for by the organisers of the event.<ref name="Wilby160416"/>
On the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Milne wrote that "western aggression and lawless killing is on another scale entirely from anything Russia appears to have contemplated, let alone carried out – removing any credible basis for the US and its allies to rail against Russian transgressions",<ref name="Milne050314">{{cite news|last=Milne|first=Seamus|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/05/clash-crimea-western-expansion-ukraine-fascists|title=The clash in Crimea is the fruit of western expansion|work=The Guardian|date=5 March 2014|accessdate=14 January 2016}}</ref> and has described the annexation as "clearly defensive",<ref>{{cite news|last=Milne|first=Seumas|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict|title=It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of war|work=The Guardian|date=30 April 2014|accessdate=15 January 2016}}</ref> asserting that "the crisis in Ukraine is a product of the disastrous Versailles-style break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s".<ref name="Milne050314"/
[[Brian Whitaker]], former Middle East editor for ''The Guardian'' asserted in October 2015 that Milne{{cquote|views international politics almost entirely through an anti-imperialist lens. That, in turn, leads to a sympathetic view of those dictatorial regimes which characterise themselves as anti-imperialist. It's the same with Islamist movements where they oppose western-backed regimes (Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia) though not necessarily in other cases such as Syria.<ref>{{cite web|last=Whittaker|first=Brian|url=http://www.al-bab.com/blog/2015/october/jeremy-corbyn-seumas-milne.htm#sthash.ZP8Hk1YU.dpuf|title=Spinning against imperialism: Jeremy Corbyn, Seumas Milne and the Middle East|website=Al-bab|date=27 October 2015|accessdate=15 January 2016}}</ref>}}
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