u. s. t e u, the u. k. a straight to canada and japan. all right, let's bring it out. guess for today's discussion for the started in context on web joined by chris with us. who is the chief executive of micro advisory? that's a strategic business consultancy focused on russia. you raise up from that always in capital. also we're joined by all and build sites who's a sanctions expert who founded the country risk analysis company co risk. he also helped to write a recent report that investigated how russians sanctions are being ignored and from washington dc. out of total leaving is the director of the razor program at the quincy institute for responsible state draft. and gentleman, welcome to you all. i will start with you then chris, what do you make of these up domestic growth, full cost figures for russia as well. the look of domestic but an actual facts. uh, but, but really does numbers show is that the economy is stabilized, is, is large. the being driven, but with a combination of military industrial, complex spending were just having, of course, the big it back

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