During a hearing at the European Parliament organised by the EPP Group on Tuesday 10 April on the theme of "Russian Trojan horses in the EU: populism, money and fake news", several Russia experts said the EU should attack Russia's purse-strings.
"The Kremlin's most powerful tool is dirty money to finance and corrupt. That is where the West has a margin of manoeuvre", said Alina Polyakova, a researcher at the Brookings Institution. "The people close to Putin, the oligarchs stay in power...