Good morning! Here's what people will be taking about on Wednesday. 1. The United States and Europe have adopted the strongest sanctions against Russia since the end of the cold war. The EU restrictions "include a measure that would prevent Russia’s largest state-owned banks from issuing stock or bonds in European markets," the Financial Times reports, while both western powers are "barring technology transfers in several parts of the energy sector, including shale gas and deep-sea and Arctic oil exploration." 2.