World leaders have banned several Russian banks from SWIFT, which is a global system that connects thousands of financial institutions all over the world, but remain divided on carrying out the penalty. “It doesn’t move the money, but it moves the information about the money,” Alexandra Vacroux, executive director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, told NPR. This will immediately affect the country’s economy. In the long run, it will block Russia from participating in international financial transactions, which would hurt Russia because 40% of its reven…