Fresh EU sanctions are intended to put Belarus’s economic cash cows out to pasture, targeting some of the ostracized country’s most important economic sectors and wealthiest and influential backers.
RFE/RL: EU sanctions poised to harm Belarus, help Russia
A picture taken on Oct. 6, 2013, shows a general view of Belaruskali potash mines near the Belarus town of Soligorsk, some 130 km south of the capital Minsk.