Will sanctions stop Russia in Ukraine?
The Inquiry
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🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As economic sanctions are applied to Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, will they help force it to change course? While they are credited with helping end apartheid in South Africa they have had mixed success when applied to other countries.
With Charmaine Cozier.
Produced by Bob Howard
(Protesters hold up placards in support of Ukraine, Trafalgar Square London UK, 27 Feb 2022. Credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Inquiry, I'm Charmaine Cozier, each week for expert witnesses, one question, |
| 0:06.6 | and an answer. |
| 0:10.5 | February 2022 It's early morning in Moscow when the President |
| 0:15.3 | of Russia suddenly appears on State TV. |
| 0:18.0 | There's only one topic on his mind, Ukraine. |
| 0:22.2 | Sitting at a desk with the Russian flag behind him Vladimir Putin announces what he calls |
| 0:27.0 | a special military operation against Europe's second largest country, which used to be |
| 0:32.2 | part of the former Soviet Union. |
| 0:36.8 | Within hours, troops which had been building up on the border for weeks invade Ukraine from |
| 0:41.3 | the north, south and west. |
| 0:44.0 | Within days, the international response includes penalties in the form of economic sanctions. |
| 0:49.5 | There are several types, but the overall aim is the same. |
| 0:53.8 | To financially squeeze a group government or individual in order to change political |
| 0:58.2 | behaviour that the international community wants to stop. |
| 1:02.5 | Russia has been bombarded with painful financial punishments for invading Ukraine, and this |
| 1:07.9 | scope for those measures to be escalated. |
| 1:10.8 | So this week we're asking, will sanctions stop Russia in Ukraine? |
| 1:19.8 | The embargo has been in place exactly 60 years. |
| 1:40.4 | It's the tightest embargo in American history. |
| 1:42.8 | The embargo began in 1962, after the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro nationalised |
| 1:48.6 | American owned businesses and assets. |
| 1:51.3 | John F. Kennedy, who was US president then, retaliated with an executive order. |
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