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Business Matters: Turkey Faces Russian Sanctions

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Russia plans sanctions against Turkey

27/11/2015 GMT

Turkey Faces Russian Sanctions

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Russia plans trade and transport sanctions against Turkey

Russia plans trade and transport sanctions against Turkey.

Turkey is to pay the price for shooting down a Russian warplane - a series of economic sanctions imposed on Ankara by Moscow. Trade, transport and tourism are being restricted and investment projects could be halted. Fadi Hakura of Royal Institute for International Affairs explains how much damage these sanctions will do to Turkey's economy.

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This time next year the US will know who Barack Obama's successor is. Donald Trump is still the most popular among the candidates for the Republican nomination, despite, or perhaps because of, his willingness to cast aside convention and even civility in his language and comments. The latest was a reference to a reporter from the New York Times in which he seemed to mock the man's disability.

(Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a press conference at the Kremlin in Moscow. Credit: AFP)

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