Europe correspondent - Carsten von Nahmen

The U.S. and the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia for the annexation of Crimea and Russia's role in the conflict in the East of the Ukraine. But do these sanctions have any effect on the Russian economy? There's an uproar over the fact that, for the first time in many years two journalists have been put under investigation for treason by the Federal Prosecutor-General after they published information on the internet referring to activities of Germany's domestic secret service.