<blockquote>'..Russian banks could soon be banned from doing any transactions with US or EU lenders .. Russia’s state banks could be targeted under sanctions..'
- Alexei Kudrin [warns] Putin (
Source, March 13, 2014)</blockquote>
<blockquote>'Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to “invade eastern Ukraine” after occupying the country’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, Estonia said.'
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Russia Is Preparing to Invade East Ukraine, Estonia Says, March 14, 2014</blockquote>
Context Ukraine - '..The economy needs a total structural overhaul .. the work Central Europe and the Baltic states did in the 1990s.'<blockquote>
'..Ukraine's independence .. crucial to European security.''Only Europe, in concert with the United States, can put a check on the Putin doctrine..''..Putin’s warmongering..'