- Safi Bello
Too big to sanction? U.S. struggles with punishing large Russian businesses.
The Washington Post --------- When the Treasury Department imposed tough sanctions on Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and his companies in April, the fallout for the Putin ally was fast and fierce. Western customers stopped buying from the aluminum company he controls, sinking its share price and shaving Deripaska’s fortune from $6.7 billion to $3.4 billion, according to Forbes estimates. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.