Western Sanctions Against Russia: Means and Consequences

... manned flights from US territory scheduled to resume only by 2017, from a new technological platform. Russian spacecraft 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 Russia, especially now that the US and the EU no longer harbour any illusions about Crimea having become part of Russia for good? Sanctions and Syrian chemical weapons ...