● Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
Stephanie Baker
Interview with author via Marketplace.org
Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been cut off from much of the global economy, with over 20,000 sanctions and other restrictions in place, according to Stephanie Baker, an investigative reporter at Bloomberg News. Companies like McDonald’s and Starbucks have pulled out. A coalition of countries have agreed to a price cap for Russian oil in the hopes of reducing the country’s energy revenue. Never before has an economy the size of Russia’s been targeted by so many sanctions, but are those sanctions working? Baker, author of the new book “Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia,” says it depends on your definition of success.