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This is the indicator from planet money.

I'm Patty Hirsch.

And I'm Adrienne Ma.

Russia has been the target of sanctions for more than four months, ever since it started

invading Ukraine back in February.

And in fact, this past week, the G7 just slapped a new sanction on Russia banning all imports

of gold from the country.

But how successful are all of these sanctions?

Russia is still fighting in Ukraine.

It's still making heaps of money selling oil and gas.

And its currency, the rubble, which President Biden once said would be reduced to rubble,

is somehow resurgent.

On the other hand, the sanctions do seem to be having an impact in other areas.

Russia's economy is predicted to shrink by 10% this year.

And the country just defaulted on its foreign debt.

But let's not lose sight of the fact that these sanctions are aimed at trying to get Russia

out of Ukraine.

And so how do you actually measure whether these sanctions are effective for that?

So we're going to score the sanctions as we do on the indicator with some numbers.

That's coming up after the break.

The sanctions against Russia fall into three main areas.

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