If being the subject of international sanctions is causing Konstantin Malofeev any stress, he's not showing it. "The sanctions are a very stupid instrument that only Obama and his administration could believe will have any impact. It has not damaged my business," he says. The 40-year-old multimillionaire, though, does allow that the sanctions have "had some impact on my personal movements. I cannot go on vacation in the Alps. This weekend, my Greek friend who invited me to be the best man at his wedding had to come to me to have his wedding with 90 Greeks, instead of me going to him. That's the impact that it had."
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (C), Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin (L) and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill (R) walk along the Kremlin wall to attend the City Day celebrations in Moscow on Sept. 6, 2014.
