The reason russia was importing food from europe was because it was cheaper the hike will be reflected in the people wallets.
Along with the 3% new sale tax that will be added next year.
And with the 6% yearly inflation.

From where? From the farms on mars?
If the farmers in brazil or argentina will sell their products to russia now it means that the country to which they used to export is not getting anything and will buy from europe.

You can't produce out of the blue 5 billion worth of products it's not like in the oil industry where you can release a tap and that's all.

Killing of enemy soldiers stops being the main goal - in a hybrid war it is enough to kill your own soldiers and provide it with proper information follow-up. The main object of influence in a hybrid war is not an opponent, but the population being "liberated".

Shooting near the crash zone overnight forced investigators to shelter, proving just one incident too many for officials.

The Swiss government has extended sanctions to include 26 people in Russia and Ukraine, as well as 18 organizations, so the country isn’t used as a channel to avoid EU and US sanctions.

Switzerland itself hasn’t imposed any sanctions, but some of the EU measures will now apply in the country which is surrounded by the European Union.

Known for its neutrality, Switzerland has delayed imposing sanctions, and didn’t heed America’s call in March to respond and sanction Russia over Crimea’s reunification with Russia.

The EU’s sectorial sanctions are its most serious step against Russia to date. European leaders have been increasing pressure on the Russian government for several months by imposing visa bans and asset freezes on a number of individuals the EU considers responsible for Moscow's policy toward Ukraine.

As the anti-Russian howling and barking of the American MSM and politicians gets more and more deafening, as the anti-Russian sanctions get more and more audacious and the vilifying of Russia and Putin goes into an overdrive, perhaps there are other voices out there as well. The presstitutes of the Western MSM won’t give the podium to these voices, furtively pretending they don’t exist. Even some of the so-called alternative media in the US is anti-Russian, or is timidly shying away from the subject.

But different voices, although quiet, do exist. Is this proof that perhaps there are some healthy and honest forces still left in the USA? Below are recollections of those Americans who actually met Putin well before his rise, during the turbulent and disastrous 1990s. Who is really Vladimir Putin? What you’ll read below may surprise you!

Yes, true but with very centralized federation.
All main decisions coming from Moscow.

Putin is a loser.

Why is everyone shitting their pants about him?

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Economic warfare.

Does US import anything from Russia?

i'm searching for an author, and apparently he/she is not brave enough to post their name 

Opinion pieces by Peter Lavelle, the host of RT's shows CrossTalk and On the Money, who was also the anchor of the review programme In Context and the commentary series IMHO

In 1813 like in 1945 it wasn't Russia against the rest of Europe and the US.
In 1813 it was allied with prussia england and austria
in 1945 it was allied with the uk , france and us.

All of it's former allies are now on the opposite side.

If one relies on Western mainstream media and those who claim to represent the Western world, it is easy to come to the conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most evil political figure in the world.

Actually, it would not be a gross exaggeration to claim Putin is responsible for just about all that afflicts the human condition today. One simple sentence says it all: “Putin did it.” The fact is the West is infuriated by Russia’s refusal to accept its place in the world assigned by the Washington consensus. And Putin gets all the blame for this.

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Applying the logic outlined above, the West’s onslaught against anything related to Russia and Russians must be personalized to be effective. Otherwise there would have to be a real discussion (even dialogue) surrounding very serious, meaningful, and differing national interests. Since there is no indication this is going to happen anytime soon, Washington must play an alternative card: fall back on emotion and caricature. Instead of a coherent foreign policy, the West, particularly its media, prefers a narrative in which an invented cartoon figure is the essence of all evil in the world and “against our values.” This of course is not a foreign policy, but it is a rejection and a refusal to entertain simple commonsense. It is also foreign policy failing to achieve Washington’s goals when attempting to stare down and isolate Russia.

The UK is looking into the potential of virtual currencies, such as bitcoin, as part of the country’s measures designed to ensure it becomes the “global leader of financial innovation.”

Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the plan, which includes possible regulation of virtual currencies.

"The government will look at the potential virtual and digital currencies have for achieving positive change and for encouraging innovation in our world leading financial sector, as well as the potential risks," the finance ministry said in a statement.

The UN has expressed its major concern over the plight of the eastern Ukrainian territories and their soaring numbers of refugees. There are 118,000 internally displaced people, and 740,000 have fled to Russia during the crisis.

“What we are scared about is the way the military operations are conducted. What will happen if we have intense fighting inside the big urban centers of Lugansk and Donetsk? Fighting in highly intensified urban areas could lead to massive exodus and massive destruction,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Vincent Cochetel stated on Tuesday.

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Some former residents – and now refugees – told RT’s Maria Finoshina how and why their lives have changed forever.

“They were bombing us non-stop, day and night. They hit our neighbor’s house, killing her. How can one live in this country?” Tatyana Belyaeva, a Lugansk resident, said.

“My house was destroyed, there’s nothing left. <…> There were no strategic targets in our neighborhood,” Pyotr Seletsky, a Lugansk resident and ER doctor, told RT.

And his wife spoke of how they had lost their home.

“I have no idea what kind of a bomb can turn a house into an inferno in a matter of minutes,” Elena said.

“The temperature was so high that the bricks crumbled,” she added.