title: The Kremlin’s Economic Checkmate Maneuver
abstract: Much has been written over the past year describing how Russian security forces were able to seize the Crimean peninsula, which ultimately led to annexation in March 2014. The West responded to this aggression with both political and economic measures. Russia’s membership in the G8 was annulled and a series of economic sanctions have been applied to force Russia to renounce its claims in Crimea and discontinue its support for separatists in southeastern Ukraine. The Russian leadership has undert
journal: Problems of Post-Communism