Similar to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Western powers have been confined to watching events from the sidelines without finding an effective response—so far.
During the presidential campaign, Michael D. Cohen and Felix Sater, an associate with a criminal past, pursued a new Trump Tower project with a former spymaster’s help.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/us/politics/trump-russia-felix-sater-michael-cohen.html
Die Sicherheitsbehörden haben nach SPIEGEL-Informationen einen neuen Hackerangriff auf Abgeordnete, Botschaften und die Bundeswehr entdeckt. Die Spur führt erneut nach Russland.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3813620
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3814465
https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2018/11/29/12076933.shtml
If you're Georgia or Ukraine, you earn a quiet life if you opt for neutral national leaders – or outright pro-Moscow ones. But if you choose one hostile to Russia, you incur automatic consequences. Moscow's public attack on Ukrainian ships is also a warning to Georgians to pick the right President.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-putin-is-in-control/
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5BFEFE6A049B5