As it has shown repeatedly, the Kremlin is perfectly prepared to use energy prices, and the threat to cut off supplies, as a means of putting political pressure on other countries.

You don't know how much it means when [people] are cut off from the rest of the world, when they have this sense that really they are still remembered, that people know that they are there.

What it really means: to use a tool that detangles and defines your curls, so that you don't feel the need to cut them all off, spreading them over a large area of the salon floor.