State Policy of Decreasing the Effectiveness of Western Sanctions

The article considers the anti-Russian sanctions introduced by the US by a number of Western states. In 2014, after the reunification of the Crimea with Russia, and in connection with the assistance of our country to compatriots in the southeast of Ukraine a number of Western states have introduced quite severe economic and political measures (sanctions) in order to force her to change the chosen policy. The initiators of the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions were the United States and the leading states of the European Union. Among the “sanctioners” were also Australia, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Japan and other states. In their view, the reunification of Russia and the Crimean Republic, formerly part of Ukraine, was illegal, as it violated the universally recognized borders and territorial integrity of a sovereign state, a member of the UN Security Council.