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Nina Khrushcheva
Since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine against international laws in 2014, the United States and European Union have imposed sanctions to punish Vladimir Putin�s Kremlin. The article addresses a debate as to whether these sanctions have been effective and argues that they have been. The seeming lack of progress�Crimea remains under the Russian control�comes from the false expectations of an immediate success. It also has been largely unnoticed that sanctions have worked in conjunction with additional legal means against Russia�s other infringements on international laws such as gas price gouging, violating shareholders� rights, or illegally appropriating industrial and business infrastructures outside of the country
