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By PAT EATON-ROBB and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press

STORRS, Conn. (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday she believes the outcome of the standoff in Ukraine will be a bad one for Russia.

Speaking at a University of Connecticut issues forum, the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state said she believes the sanctions against the Russian government must be "tightened and widened" to prevent the crisis from escalating.

"I think Russia will pay a big price for this," Clinton said. "But that is an endpoint that we've got to get to as peacefully as possible without seeing the total disintegration of Ukraine as a country with territorial integrity and opportunity to have the relationship it wants with the West."

Clinton, who is considering a run for president in 2016, said she believes Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to see a return of a Russian era that no longer exists and said the U.S. and Europe need to be "very clear, strong and to some extent patient" to make that outcome unaffordable to him.

"I think the outcome for him and Russia will not be good, which is deeply unfortunate," she said. "Russia should be a much more dynamic and much more successful country and could be if Putin weren't trying to turn the clock back to the Soviet Union days."

Clinton spoke for more than an hour to a group of about 2,300 students, faculty and staff. The talk was not open to the general public.

She used her prepared remarks to praise young people's activism and community service, and called on UConn students be part of what she called the "participation generation."

She was then asked questions submitted in advance and spoke on issues ranging from congressional gridlock to immigration reform.

She urged the students not to vote for any leader who does not believe in compromise. But she did not say whether she would be a candidate for president.

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