OTTAWA, Canada—Western sanctions on Russia may be having an effect.
Mikhail Kasyanov, former Russian Prime Minister and an open critic of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, said that western countries should continue to target Putin’s inner circle as punishment for Russia annexing the southern Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in March.
“People became nervous. Some of them already signaled in the inner cycle that they don’t like it, because what they are dreaming about, bragging [about] and enjoying—now everything could disappear,” he said during a visit to Ottawa this week.
Kasyanov said Putin thought he could get away with invading neighboring countries after he invaded …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
