Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has just escalated the sanctions war between the West and Russia to a level that no one predicted, by banning imports of fruit, vegetables, nuts, dairy products, fish and meats from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway.
The European Union’s member states battled for months over whether to impose economic sanctions on Russia to persuade it to ‘de-escalate’ the crisis in Ukraine, and in the end last week decided on sanctions that, while powerful, were very targeted, designed to limit the impact on ordinary Russians and to limit the impact on European businesses. …read more
Source: European Voice
