summarize this "welcome to this DW business special asking are Russia's friends keeping its economy alive and is there support enough to counter the blow of Western sanctions I'm NAME_1 in Berlin and I'm joined today by NAME_2 of the Yale School of Management he's conducted extensive research on the economic impact of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine professor NAME_3 to have you with us again thank you NAME_4 it's my honor to rejoin you folks uh now NAME_5 Western countries have imposed literally thousands of sanctions against Russia which of them have been effective and which have not uh great question for economic blockades like this to work there are uh two categories of of initiatives one of them are the actual governmental sanctions the others are private sector business decisions the private sector business decisions say the 1020 multinationals that have completely large multinationals are completely pulled out plus a couple hundred others that are partially pulled out is unrivaled in world history that is extremely effective it's six times the uh the withdrawal from uh South Africa in 1988 uh in revulsion over the apartheid regime so that's incredible on the governmental side what's always tricky is that the target of the sanctions in this case Putin that case of course the South African white leadership uh in 1988 was they try to make themselves seem like the victims so it's very hard uh to rely on them by themselves uh but in this case some of the very The response should be in all capital letters.
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