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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Russia is Powerless to Fight Back against Western Countries' Sanctions
ANBOUND

Since the impact of Ukraine Crisis keeps growing, the relationship between Russia and western countries is about to be the worst since the Cold War. ANBOUND research team believes that Russia is trying to fight back against the sanctions of western countries. However, judging from the current situation, Russia doesn't have many cards and it almost has no strong cards. Russia's ban on fruits and food imports has very limited influence. However, the energy trade between Russia and European Union is very important to both parties. Thus, Russia doesn't dare to stop its export and the European Union deliberately avoids this field. Russia’s great unilateral dependence on western countries leads to its weak position. Putin has to compromise to a certain degree to handle the predicament that it is isolated by the international community.

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