Owen Massey, author of five books as a war correspondent, Owen covered conflicts in Bosnia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, Ukraine. For 10 years, he was Moscow bureau chief for Newsweek. Alexei Vignon, editor-in-chief of Echomasko and the one thing that surprised the Kremlin most of all at the beginning of this war, 2022 invasion, was their shock at how not only the West responded but also how private companies responded. Simon Tisdall: The problem is not that sanctions will not work; it's that they encouraged the Kremlin to believe that they could push further away from them. And our final speaker, I can
Since Russia invaded Ukraine last February the West has ramped up sanctions against Russia to an unprecedented level, but are the measures having the desired effect? On today’s episode of The Sunday Debate the motion is: Sanctions against Russia won’t work.
For the motion we have Richard Connolly, Associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and Simon Jenkins, journalist and author. And against the motion we were joined by Russia expert Owen Matthews - and historian and journalist, Anna Reid. Our host for the debate was broadcaster and academic, Philippa Thomas.
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