Ukraine (closed; covers till August 2014)

[Firn]

At the first glance the newest round of sanctions seem to have a different quality compared to pretty soft ones. I will take a closer look at it and likely post it on the thread about the Russian economy.

EU ambassadors approve economic sanctions on Russia

Today @ 17:32

By EUOBSERVER

EU ambassadors have approved a raft of economic sanctions against Russia, banning EU citizens and companies from trading Russian bonds, as well as selling weapons to or importing them from Russia, exporting technology for oil exploration and items with military and civilian use. The sanctions will enter into force Friday.

Possibly the Duma will be indeed so stupid to 'uproot' all foreign-based audit companies in the country or other patriotic-idiotic stuff and it will continue to cut deeper into it's economy's flesh. More in the economy thread, but a weaker Russian economy will have an impact on the war.

[Firn]

@BrentWilliams: It is also noteworthy that this also mirrored by the already mentioned crowd-funding of this conflict and the events at Maidan. One side seems to have so far a an easier time to gather the support of the civil society and common citiziens. Especially those of the young.