19 April 2022

Putin a pariah? Not yet. Russia still has powerful friends in the world.

Nikhil Kumar and Joshua Keating

“We will make sure that Putin will be a pariah on the international stage.”

That was the message from President Joe Biden as Russia launched its attack on Ukraine at the end of February, one that has been echoed regularly by leaders across Western capitals — from London, to Paris, to Berlin and beyond. And it has been backed up by condemnation at the United Nations and unprecedented sanctions on the Russian economy, its central bank and Russian oligarchs. Hardly a day passes without some new measure to ostracize Russian President Vladimir Putin and his regime.

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