Russia has borne Western sanctions before. Is this time different?
Posted on AllSides February 15th, 2022
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The West has promised harsh sanctions against Russia should it invade Ukraine. But Russians have borne sanctions since 2014, and seem ready, mentally and economically, to do so again.
Nadezhda Mamonova, a Moscow office worker, says she’s learned to take life “day by day” amid talk of war with Ukraine and devastating Western sanctions that are threatened to follow.
Like most Russians, she’s been watching this movie for about eight years, ever since Russia annexed Crimea and the West began ratcheting up economic and financial punishments that, by all accounts, have...
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