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Culture is “the third front in the Ukrainian war”, Nadine Dorries has said, as the cabinet minister said sporting sanctions could hit as hard as economic measures on Russia.
Writing in the Telegraph (paywall) on Wednesday, Dorries said she was using the “full might of the UK’s soft power” to make Russian president Vladimir Putin an “international pariah”.
Putin is now suffering a sporting and cultural Siberia of his own making.
These are not mere gestures. Culture and sport matter – to Putin, to his cronies and to the Russian people.
This sporting exile will be causing the Russian leader real pain.
