International financial institutions close ranks against Russia as global partners ‘get creative’

Russia ‘cannot wage war against the international order, and, at the same time, be a part of the prosperity created by that order,’ says Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she warned the governor of the Bank of Russia that economic sanctions would be 'swift, co-ordinated, sustained, and crushing.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

March 4, 2022

The strength of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion surprised international leaders, says Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and spurred them to “get creative” with unprecedented economic sanctions that are intended to cut Russia off from the global economy. Freeland (University...

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