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Russia and Ukraine: One Year On

Intelligence Squared

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Is Money the Issue?

Putin has not shown to me or to anything I've read any sign of being influenced by these economic sanctions. Sanctions are a rich man's game and the poor suffer, it's just appalling what sanctions have done to doesn't,. at least a dozen countries around the world, which have been had the sanctions inflicted on them. Money is not the issue here, but for the millions of Russians who are suffering, it very much is. All studies of sanctions show that they hurt the poor most.

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