Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Julia Ioffe: Vladimir Putin might fall. We should consider what happens next
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony of accepting the credentials of the new foreign ambassadors in Aleksandrovsky (Alexander's) Hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, on June 27, 2014.
In July, the United States and the European Union finally bridged their differences and slammed Russia with severe sanctions in the wake of the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The pincers and scalpels of the previous rounds were discarded; this time, it was whole industries - defense, finance, and energy - that were targeted, including Sberbank, Russia’s largest commercial bank.
