Editor’s Note: The following interview with Ambassador Daniel Fried, U.S. State Department coordinator for policy issues, first appeared on Aug. 21 in the Lithuanian news portal alfa.lt and was conducted by Tomas

Dapkus. The translated interview is re-published in English with the author’s permission

and can be read in its original format here: http://alfa.lt/straipsnis/593153/kiek-rusijai-kainuos-vakaru-sankcijos-del-agresijos-pries-ukraina#.U_Xf61YdszU

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