SaturdayEU sanctions meant to degrade Russia's war machine include a renewed ban on symbolic items, while letting strategic industries off the hook. Toilets became a symbol of how Russian president Vladimir Putin's 24-year rule has done nothing to improve Russian people's lives when Russian soldiers began looting them, first in Georgia in 2008, and now in Ukraine — because one in five Russian homes still don't have them. According to EU diplomats, the new individuals to be blacklisted mostly cover Russian "propagandists" as well as politicians, military commanders, and civil servants, whose names will be familiar only to Russia experts, seeing as all the big personalities, including Putin himself, were listed long ago