The economic sanctions imposed against Russia in 2014 have initiated heated debates and brought along mixed hopes as to their actual outcomes and success. However, an analysis of the immediate effects of the sanctions, and of their future expectations, is complicated due to the combined impact of the regional conflict, sanctions and reactions of global investors and markets. Even when most experts agree, that the sanctions have had some economic effect, the main question is whether it will be sufficient to trigger political reaction in Russia. And if so, will this reaction be positive and will such a process take place fast enough to avoid economic and political cataclysm in the Ukraine? This study analyses both the theoretical basis and the practical experience of the sanctions’ potential to cause political change in Russia in the short- and mid-term perspective.
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