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Ashford in Fortune: Banks are stopping Putin from tapping a $630 billion war chest Russia stockpiled before invading Ukraine

By Atlantic Council

On March 3, Emma Ashford was quoted in Fortune on government reserves of foreign currency. “Foreign reserves are a government’s holdings of gold, foreign debt, and foreign currency, which is usually denominated in the world’s most popular coins—dollars, euros, pounds, yen, and yuan. Although a country can hold foreign reserves in its own banks, governments […]

Friendlander quoted in CNBC on the unprecedented nature of Western sanctions against Russia

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CBDC tracker cited in CNBC

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Lipsky quoted in CNN Business on the uncertainty business face as a result of sanctions imposed on Russia

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Our research on the location of Russian central bank’s foreign exchange reserves featured in Axios

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Chemali quoted in Washington Post on Russian reserves held abroad

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Cimmino quoted in the Washington Examiner on outlook for Ukraine conflict

On March 2, Scowcroft Strategy Initiative associate director Jeffrey Cimmino told the Washington Examiner that Putin may have no off-ramp short of escalation — and the conflict in Ukraine is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Slavin quoted in the Daily Mail on Biden’s nuclear negotiations with Iran

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Manning in The Hill: Putin’s war in Ukraine is an inflection point

By Atlantic Council

On March 2, Robert Manning published his biweekly column in The Hill on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, calling it an inflection point that is set to reshape geopolitics. While Manning cautioned against predicting outcomes, he urged policymakers to remember that the enemy gets a vote in how the war plays out. More about our […]