arkady has frozen. do you think it's my multiple choice question? arkady, can you hear me?? i was basically saying is he going to carry on saying no? is he going to make a persuasive argument or try to charm the scots? well, i defer to lyse. what i saw this morning i thought was quite interesting. the polling in the times published, and it was tweeted by ruth davidson, talking about independence as number seven on the list of priorities in scotland today. that people are much more worried about jobs, about covid, about the health system. i wonder whether, you know, nicola sturgeon might be thinking this is the moment. it's true she's had, in a way, a better lockdown, better coronavirus, better pandemic, than borisjohnson. but i'm not sure — and again this is my guess, and i defer to those who know scotland much better — but i somehow wonder whether putting this back on the agenda now would be actually helpful. again, you know, in financial terms, scotland does need money from the central government. you know, the covid moment will pass, hopefully, in the next few months. i

arkady has frozen. was it my multiple choice question? can you hear me? arkady, did you hear that?i was basically saying is he going to carry on saying no? is he going to make a persuasive argument or is he going to try to charm the scots? i would defer to lyse on the mood. what i saw this morning i thought was quite interesting. the polling in the times published, ruth davidson tweeted it. independence is number seven on the list of priorities in scotland today, that people are much more worried about jobs, about covid, about the health system. i wonder whether nicola sturgeon might be thinking, this is the moment. i mean, it's true she has had a better lockdown, better coronavirus, better pandemic, than boris johnson. but i'm not sure, and again this is my guess, and i defer to those who know scotland much better, but i somehow wonder whether calling — putting this back on the agenda now would be actually helpful? in financial terms, scotland does need money from the central government. the covid moment will pass — hopefully — in the next few months. i think it will hang over bor

let's find out more about these protests from arkady ostrovsky, russia editor at the economist.arrests ? between these alleged crimes and the arrests? well, that is the very question that protesters, really, the citizens of khabarovsk in the russian far east are asking themselves, and that is what actually makes it very hard to believe. in fact, they are not saying if he was not involved in murder, they are saying, you know, he was a governor they have elected and they are the ones who should try him, he should be tried, if he was indeed involved in this, he should be tried in khabarovsk, but what they suspect, rather is that this is a political revenge by the kremlin against survey for gal who won elections in 2019 in 2018 —— against fugal. this is a way of intimidating and not just him fugal. this is a way of intimidating and notjust him but the region as a home and this follows the source of cedar referendum last year which very clearly displays that putin is losing his legitimacy and now has to fa re losing his legitimacy and now has to fare meant by the salsify is farcical