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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 23rd February 2022 - MPC hawk sees further hikes
Description: "Several nations announced sanctions against Russia yesterday in response to its invasion of Ukraine. On the pretext of peacekeeping, Vladimir Putin ordered personnel and armoured vehicles into the two regions in the east of Ukraine that he recognized as independent states on Monday.
The response from the UK Government was to introduce measures against five Russian Banks in the UK, freezing their assets and three oligarchs known to have close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
These measures have been criticized as being too weak in comparison to actions taken by other G7 nations. The Prime Minister countered those criticisms...