The Financial Punishment of Russia
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The US and its allies dealing Russia another financial bloke. |
| 0:16.4 | And the international backlash against Russia is growing, with the energy giant BP exiting |
| 0:21.0 | its nearly 20% stake in the country's Kiwil company, Rosneft. |
| 0:25.1 | Delta Air has cut ties with Russia's national airline as the fallout from Russia's |
| 0:29.8 | invasion of Ukraine spreads to Eritrea. |
| 0:32.2 | FedEx and UPS have also suspended all shipments into the country. |
| 0:35.8 | Breaking news that we've just received the Swiss say they will adopt and implement the |
| 0:41.1 | EU sanctions on Russia. |
| 0:43.7 | That's a huge move because Switzerland, of course, traditionally remains neutral at all times |
| 0:49.7 | in all conflicts. |
| 0:53.1 | The impact of these unprecedented sanctions is already hitting Russia. |
| 0:58.1 | The economic fallout from sanctions is really hitting. |
| 1:01.0 | The stock market is now closed because they feared a crash interest rates have now been |
| 1:05.5 | hyped to deal with the plummeting rubles. |
| 1:07.6 | There are concerns ATMs will actually run out of foreign currency. |
| 1:11.5 | And this coordinated package of sanctions came together quickly. |
| 1:16.4 | So there was absolute frantic efforts to coordinate across capitals over the weekends to get |
| 1:23.8 | these measures in place as quickly as possible. |
| 1:26.7 | That's our colleague Lawrence Norman. |
| 1:29.1 | Constant phone calls between Brussels, London and the US, the Japanese were working up in |
| 1:34.2 | the middle of the night by US officials saying, come and you've got to work with us and |
| 1:38.4 | make sure that we're aligned on this. |
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