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Opinion
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reaching out to ordinary Russians with visa free travel and scholarships. Asymmetric measures will often be more effective than easily predict- able reciprocal measures; responding to cyber- attacks by, for example, giving Georgia $10mn in counter-intelligence aid or offering Belarus a favourable trade deal might help further un- dermine the Kremlin’s assumptions that it can always game Western moves.
Sanctions are preferable to the other instruments of coercion, containment and retaliation. But effect and effectiveness are not always one and the same.
Mark Galeotti is a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague and the director of Mayak Intelligence. He blogs at In Moscow’s Shadows and tweets as @MarkGaleotti.
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