once, moscow glistened with aspiration — to be a global financial centre, an economic giant. but war has changed that. after the kremlin�*s invasion of ukraine, the world has turned its back on russia. western sanctions have sent the russian rouble tumbling and interest rates soaring. no panic yet, but russians are feeling it. svetlana's advertising agency is already losing clients. it's just like a nightmare for me, really. i can't believe that this is really happening. we don't want to go back there, to this iron curtain. we don't want to be isolated from the society. me personally and everybody who i know, we don't want this. western sanctions, economic and financial, are designed to punish the russian state, the kremlin, for its war in ukraine. but inevitably the russian public will feel the effects, too, and already there's a sense of disbelief