Western countries imposed sanctions on Russia following Vladimir Putin’s violation of international law in annexing Ukraine’s Crimea and creating an anti-Kyiv insurgency in the Donbas on the assumption that such sanctions would impose costs high enough to force the Kremlin to change course. To the extent that some of the sanctions affected the Russian population...
Putin finds a way to limit impact of sanctions on his friends – and also on his policies
By Ukrainian Weekly Editor3 Mins Read