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Russian ruble, which fell as much as 30% on monday. >> these actions will severely impact putin inner circle, impede the kremlins use of its international reserves, and limit its ability to fund ongoing destabilizing activities. >> reporter: and a historic move, even switzerland, long a bastian of neutrality has matched the european unions sanctions on russia. >> translator: russias attack against ukraine is unacceptable with regards to international law. unacceptable politically speaking and un...

That is de facto, isnt it? since 2014 that has been recognised. this upping of conflict within the donbas region, is that likely to be the key factor that tips it over into conflict, full—blown conflict? i mean, i think it could be, but as i said, its not just the donbas front that we should be watching because we see a buildup both from the south and the north of belarus. but donbas is here de facto already joined up with russia because russia issued quite a lot of russian passports. its econ...

Looks at, bill. he looks at what steps -- he has been looking at what steps we can take to maximize the impact on president putin ton cronies and oligarchs benefiting from so much corruption in russia for decades. he is looking at that. how we can squeeze the financial system there. weve seen over the past couple of days even just the plummeting of the ruble. the skyrocketing of inflation. serious financial problems on the ground in russia impacting putin and his circle. when he also looks at an...

I would make the point that we shouldnt just generalize about the oligarchs. there are different classes of oligarchs. putins bargain is he said ill make you rich, you keep me in power. theys cycled through a lot of oligarchs. the guys living in london and paris, putin doesnt care about him. he may want to sink their yachts. its those still around him, the oil industry in russia, the military industrial complex in russia, those are the oligarchs that can damage him, can say, hey, vlad, youre mak...

-- 350 million dollar of american aid. and ammunition, reaches them. can they continue to resist the russians and send them off, if they can, they have to do more than that, because, they have to wait a long time for those sanctions to really cut into russia. but it is already happening, because as you have seen, the ruble has fallen 40%. against the dollar. and that is just in first 24 hours of the announcement that europe and america had agreed to invoke the swift sanctions to deny russia, tha...

Collapsed and russia went under water after they defaulted on their debt. russians turned on their president boris yeltsin and then came putin to stabilize the economy. and the russian people loved him ever since. the russians could easily turn on him if all goes to hell. seems like russia is about to repeat itself. russians might look elsewhere for leadership. joining me now monica crowley, former assistant secretary of the treasury department. all right, monica, what happens when the ruble bec...

Ruble, which lost about a quarter of its value against the u.s. dollar on monday alone. there have been long lines at atms across the country, many scrambling to exchange rubles for euros and dollars but foreign currency has been difficult to find. after heavy losses last week, the moscow stock exchange will remain closed for a second day on tuesday. still, the kremlin insists preparations have been made to compensate for western sanctions. were joined by ryan patel from the drucker school of ma...

Evil. he has a lot of will and weapons but he is an evil man and he has targeted civilians populations for years and gotten away with it. you go back to 2004 he first poisoned a political pont. in 2008 he invades georgia no consequences. 2014 he steals crimea. medals in u.s. elections. and pulses bombing into syria into civilian populations not just because he is trying to help the evil assad but also because he wanted to pulse refugee waves into europe to destabilize time lines there and this g...

It cant actually go after the enemy. it cant close on the enemy. and you know, hes isolated, sitting at the end of a long table, and the world is cutting him off. you know, corporation by corporation is announcing theyre leaving russia, which i think is absolutely the right call. neutral countries like switzerland are saying, were joining the west, were joining the nato alliance and sanctioning russia. the ruble is in free fall. the stock market is closed. theres a run on the banks. no one can d...

Ukraine. >>ly tell you, certainly, the rhetoric, the justification that hes making for his actions are certainly deeply concerning to us. >> and were joined now by james longman in moscow. and james, in a real sign that these sanctions might be effecting not only russia, but the russian people directly, what have you seen about the value of the ruble tonight? >> reporter: well, david, the ruble is now worth less than a cent against the dollar. and tonight, putin is so worried about capital fligh...