Introduction

The range of economic weapons pointed at russia in the wake of its invasion of ukraine has been nothing short of astonishing. A powerful coalition representing some of the world's biggest democracies announced it would block some russian banks from swift president by targeting new group of oligarchs to day. And a hundred years ago this week, pierre paulo passulini was born, an author, a playwright, a journalist and novelist,. but most prominently, an audacious film director.