minister dimity made be they have said that this list is doesn't mean anything and his deputy arkady dvorkovich said that russia is going to monitor the whole situation right now they don't plan to retaliate or this is at least not the plan today it may change in the days to come when it's lecky member of the foreign relations committee of the duma he said that russia and the u.s. are in some sort of war i'm not sure what he means but by the word war what is even more important that the russian ruble was a little bit on the pressured late at least today in the early morning and that some shares of important russian companies like noted sneakily that they went south all right now let's talk about this other arguably the bigger russia related story a coming out of the u.s. so right now that of a cia director mike pompei are saying that he expects russia will meddle in the twenty thousand mid-term elections in the u.s. has the kremlin responded to that. well we haven't heard right now anything from the crown man and the cia director mike bumpier spoke about his expectations he expects as russia's

other russian officials perhaps even had a little laugh about it like the deputy prime minister arkady dvorkovich who said that washington basically released a book that you may call the book who's who in watching politics one russian senator thought of it as sharing the kremlin phone book with everyone anyway back to putin's first public reaction to the list he said that the american officials wall. and the u.s. russian relations any favors with it. with the muscle to get used to union. i don't understand the logic behind this move but it's definitely a hostile one and further complicates u.s. russian relations in the security services share intelligence that helped prevent terrorist attacks do they need this or not will we start working together or not we can do without that but i think it's in everyone's interests it would be absurd to reduce our relations to zero. thank you for. trying to reporting from central moscow. where we discuss the lift and what it means with political analyst chris bambery. people look at it i think and say this is a piece of lazy intelligence true taken a who's who

from the document perhaps decided to have a little laugh for instance the deputy prime minister arkady dvorkovich said that basically the u.s. treasury published a book that may be called who's who in russian politics while another senator said that they just basically shared a kremlin phone book with everyone. ok thanks on this day thousands not easily but trying to reporting from central moscow that well let the list includes the names of ninety six russian businessmen who happened to be exactly the same ninety six billionaires on forbes that russian rich list and the names of top politicians also much they may just start and care fishel is page of the kremlin's website one of thirty trying to get to the bottom of this now and bring in our guest mark elements director of the crisis research to insist institute in oxford thank you for joining us live on the program mr owens now we're being told it's not about sanctions so what do you think is the logic behind such a broad list. well i suppose it's a reflection of the discontent and the early nation of the us political elite from russia and from

we have debbie prime minister -- deputy prime minister arkady dvorkovich.s the outlook for the russian economy? is 2% growth achievable this year? we came out of a recession in 2017, the lowest inflation in russia. low unemployment. we are out of recession and optimistic for the investment inflow.and flow -- >> you expect growth. >> not less than 2%. >> from this year? >> yes. >> can russia modernize its economy without a competitive political system? >> we do have a competitive political system. we had two political parties that share parliament seats. they do affect legislation and what the government does and economic policies. they present views of difference, we have economists and social democrats am a liberal democrats, a centrist party. we have strong political competition. yes, we can and we are doing it. >> this is an economy that is highly dependent on oil and vladimir putin has said he wants to diversify. we have not seen that. why should we believe him that it can be done by 2024? >> i agree that we are still dependent on oil too much. that, ma