The Russian economy (catch all)

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Kaur,
President Ilves told the Ukrainians this months ago.

What a shame that our 2007 lesson, free of charge, fell on deaf ears.

Close the borders
Find the money
All Russian passports are suspicious

How difficult to follow ?

But, we don't have Russian sympathizers on our borders

Hey, at least no sensible person can say anymore that the has been no little effort to 'understand' Putins position on the 'Russian necessities'. It seems that much of the energy spent on 'de-escalating' has served as a incentive to Vova to escalate further.*

In any case time isn't on the side of the Russian economy. We will see how things shape up around that key Russian weakness in the long run.

*As stated before I'm against military adventures but the US and EU could inflict considerable financial and economic costs on Russia at likely pretty cheap price. Others will hurt especially the EU more, but will hit Russia far harder. Needless to say the US could easily come up with a couple of additional billions to support Ukraine, helping to break a good deal of the economic leverage Russia enjoys over it's weak neighbour.