"Within hours of announcements in Washington and Brussels last week that sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine would be stepped up, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would consider how to retaliate.
Moscow has proven once that it can act. In August, Russia banned food imports from Western countries worth $9 billion annually.
Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said Tuesday that retaliatory measures should not go beyond the agricultural sector, but other more hawkish voices have called for Moscow to be bolder.
The Moscow Times looked at some of the options that may have landed on Putin's desk, ranging from the plausible to the fanciful. "
Russia can do lots of things, but it needs to think first about how much it hurts Russia to retaliate when Russia itself it in the wrong. Monkey with its hand in the jar?