COLUMN-Putin can’t afford to ditch the dollar

Paul Manafort, while managing Donald
Trump’s 2016 election campaign, is accused of passing private
polling data to his Russia business partner, a man with alleged
ties to Russian intelligence. This new information, revealed in
an unsealed court filing, is likely to stoke the case in
Congress for increased sanctions against Russia. Equally
importantly, the reverberations will be felt in Moscow, where
anger and frustration over the impact of U.S. sanctions – and by
implication,