these are the sort of political analysts, dimitri barbara. thank you very much for your time and sharing your insight into the matter with us. thank you. ah, no man's unprecedented western sanctions against russia. the country's national currency. the rubel has been named as the world's best performing currency every year, according to bloomberg. it's with an, a little over 11 percent against the us dollar since january the agency reports. while the offshore rate indicates the rise amounts to around 12 percent. this comes with most go required, export is sell foreign currency and trade partners pay, energy, imports him roubles. we should one professor of banking and finance at the marketing of us, they say the western sanctions that fell to really hurt the russian economy, bringing damage to european markets. i don't think those that imposed those sanctions wake suspecting the rubel to do this. well, the fact is that since 2014, with a sanction sticking in an international financial markets being already at that time becoming increasingly hos