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From Yahoo:

"Western sanctions 'severely' harming Russia: Putin"

 

President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Monday in an interview with German daily Bild that Western economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis are affecting Russia. "Concerning our possibilities on the international financial markets, the sanctions are severely harming Russia," he said in a long interview, calling the EU sanctions "a theatre of the absurd". Moscow has been hit by US and European sanctions over the conflict between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces which has claimed more than 9,000 lives since April 2014. In late December, the EU extended its sanctions by six months, arguing that the Minsk peace agreement signed by Moscow has not been fully implemented. Asked about the crisis in Ukraine, caused by Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, Putin said that "for me, it is not borders and state territories that matter, but people's fortunes."

"Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. "The Russian population is absolutely clear about the situation. Napoleon once said that justice is the incarnation of God on Earth. I'm telling you: the reunification of Crimea and Russia is just," Putin continued, describing the sanctions against Russia as "foolish".  Ukraine is not the first former Soviet-era satellite to be involved in a conflict with Moscow. In August 2008, Georgia fought a brief border war with Russia, losing control of the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions as a result.

 

 

^ He still doesn't get it. He caused the situation in Russia by invading, occupying and annexing the Crimea and also giving weapons and troops to the ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. I know he is hoping that the world simply forgets what the Russians are doing in the Ukraine because of Syria. Hopefully the world doesn't. The two are separate. It's sad to say but the Russian people are used to economic crisis, loosing all of their money, having bare shelves, no food, being repressed, etc  and so just shrug it off instead of understanding why those things are happening and working to fix them. ^

 

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