Would that we would listen to Aleksei Navalny -- and lift sanctions against Russia. Russia's most-famous prisoner suggests the economic sanctions America and Europe have imposed on Russia harm the ordinary citizens, and only serve to alienating them against us.
If you are to have sanctions against any government -- be they against Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Russia or wherever -- those restrictions should not harm the people. If you truly care about the people in those countries, you help them; You do not harm them. If we are going to impose sanctions, they should be focused on the government leaders and not come down on the common people.
Navalny recognizes this, and has criticized Europe and the United States and Europe more than once for their sanctions.
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