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The sanctions are measures of an unusually severe degree, threatening potential economic devastation, but the major mechanism they use have been road-tested over the last decade of economic crisis and disorder.
The economic blow from central bank sanctions on Russia will remain exceptionally severe. Bank of Russia will likely find that capital controls and dramatic interest rate hikes are what it relies on to try and defend the rouble and thus its banking system.
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