Will the sanctions aimed at Putin have any effect?

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed the West’s strategic calculus and tougher than expected sanctions have followed. Will they be enough to change the course of events?

Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin
Lavrov and Putin: the target of Western sanctions
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What sanctions have been imposed?

Over the course of last weekend, the G7 bloc ex-Japan (France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Canada, the US and the European Union) imposed tough sanctions in four areas that they had previously held back from – a sign that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has already changed the West’s strategic calculus.

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