Economics
Obama Envisions Russia Sanctions Limiting Global Impact
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Russia dismissed as “counter-productive” a United Nations resolution condemning its takeover of Crimea, as President Barack Obama said Vladimir Putin is misreading U.S. policy on the Ukraine crisis.
The Foreign Ministry in Moscow said today that abstentions and absences by UN General Assembly members in voting on yesterday’s non-binding resolution, which declared Crimea’s March 16 ballot to leave Ukraine and join Russia as “having no validity,” showed that not all countries support that view.