Western Sanctions Against Russia: Means and Consequences

... deliver most of the cargo into orbit and, in 2013, NASA had already paid Russia $424 million for taking six of its astronauts into space in 2016 [19] . So what is the West trying to achieve by slapping symbolic and, at first sight, irrelevant sanctions on ... ... January 2017, we can assume that the cooling down policy would continue for at least the next three years. Sanctions and the Iranian nuclear dossier The matter of settling the Iranian nuclear problem within the framework of the P5+1 and Iran is no less ...