A gun-toting Greek billionaire, Ivan Savvidi, is making a mockery of EU sanctions on Russia, but no one in Athens or Brussels seems to care, posing the question: Is the EU regime a paper tiger?
The sanctions were imposed in 2014 over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
They banned EU nationals from doing business in Russia-occupied Crimea and blacklisted people who harmed "the territorial integrity" of Ukraine.
But the Savvidi family is involved in Crimea food-supply, according to...
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