Anatoly Karlin — Dealing Amongst Secondary Sanctions

Russia responds, non tit-for-tat, but asymmetrically every bit it said it would.

Navalny helped the EU compile sanctions on the people who made Crimea’s provide to Russian Federation possible inwards 2014. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twelvemonth later, he submitted a listing of Russian bureaucrats he believed should endure sanctioned to the FT, many of whom were indeed afterwards sanctioned past times the West. Also inwards 2015, professional person oppositionists Mikhail Kasyanov in addition to Vladimir Kara-Murza traveled to the U.S. of America to antechamber Congress into putting Russian journalists – “propagandists” – on a no entry listing for insufficiently fawning coverage of Boris Nemtsov, a famous but politically irrelevant opposition pol who had been latterly murdered inwards Moscow.

Now all these people volition facial expression upwardly criminal liability for such activities...

This pretty much paralyzes the "liberal" opposition that Washington is counting on for regime change.

In addition, Alexei Kudrin is out. He is a pro-Western, neoliberal that favors privatizing Russian Federation state assets, in addition to replacing military machine spending amongst domestic spending.

PS. One to a greater extent than confirmation (if whatever are withal needed) that Russian Federation isn’t planning on folding is that the rumors spread past times soul that the onetime liberal Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin was going to endure appointed to a senior postal service inwards the Russian authorities convey been completely discredited. He has instead been appointed to endure caput of the National Audit Office, which is perchance to a greater extent than humiliating than ignoring him entirely.

Rumors of Putin (Russia) caving are manifestly premature.

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Dealing With Secondary Sanctions

Anatoly Karlin

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I would likewise enjoin that Putin's supposed caving to Netanyahu is likewise misguided in addition to simplistic. Russian Federation has a really nuanced unusual policy, particularly amongst regard to the MENA based on it national interests. If Russian Federation is far from caving to the US, it is non virtually to cave to Israel. Why they agreed upon is unknown in addition to thence far, in addition to it volition likely simply emerge inwards hindsight.