the fsb is therefore seeking input of market purchase funds and other parties. this work alone is being ambitious agenda. it's well-equipped to address challenge also furthering the other important elements of a broader agenda part let's talk ofetime about number important agenda switches enhancing cross-border payments. in 2019, the enhancing cross-border of payments is a key priority for the fsb is then dedicated to advancing this important work ourselves. the challenges associate with payments are widely long-standing. and prior attempt to make improvements and struggle to gain caption. in october of 2020 the fsb began a multi- roadmap to the g20 leaders who endorse the way forward and commit to advancing meaningful change increasingly cross-border payments. ultimately, more focus on addressing the core challenges of cost, speed, accessibility and a transparency. i goes without saying that making improvements is easier said than done. frictions underlying processes spent multiple legal, technological structural issues. and those can differ greatlyre by region

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the fsb colleagues he denounced. the russian mobsters he was investigating.a traitor for working with british intelligence. for years now litvinenko's widow, marina, has been asking how big was the conspiracy? who was behind it? how high did it go? dangerous questions, as she knows better than anyone. >> you think you play chess, but they play russian roulette. >> reporter: those who were closest to litvinenko believe the kill order may have come from the very top because litvinenko picked a fight with the wrong person from his past. none other than russian president vladimir putin. >> sasha was on a mission. he was trying to prove that putin is as corrupt as anybody in post-communist russia. >> reporter: the mission may have started years before when litvinenko made that flow chart of corruption in the fsb. the head of the agency at the time was putin. after litvinenko fled to london, and putin became president of russia, litvinenko attacked him relentlessly and by name. >> i and others said that this is a very dangerous thing to do because you're -- you're

the list includes russia's spymaster, the director of the fsb.ls will also be tightened on 14 firms involved in the production of biological and chemical agents. officials in washington say russia was behind the poisoning. they're also calling for the release of mr navalny. he's being held in a prison camp. his team have posted video about conditions there. this is some of the footage, showing the prison in pokrov, just outside moscow. it has a reputation for conditions akin to torture, used by the kremlin to break the spirit of detainees. here's the bbc�*s sarah rainsford in moscow. even by russian prison standards, it's a pretty brutal—sounding place. they've been speaking to former inmates to talk about punishment beatings, and really tough physical conditions there. and one form of political prisoner said when he was incarcerated, everyone was banned from speaking to him. now, the eu and the us have reacted today to mr navalny�*s treatment more broadly with a package of new sanctions. they have specifically targeted individuals, senior offici

the list includes russia's spymaster, the director of the fsb.icials in washington say russia was behind the poisoning and that export controls on 14 firms involved in the production of biological and chemical agents will be tightened. the us has also called for the release of mr navalny, who is being held in a russian prison camp. the opposition leader's team posted a video about the conditions in the camp where he's believed to be held. this is footage from that video, showing the prison in pokrov, just outside moscow. the facility has a reputation for torture—like conditions, that are used by the kremlin to break the spirit of the detainees. here's sarah rainsford in moscow. even by russian prison standards, it is a pretty brutal sounding place. we have been speaking to former inmates to talk about punishment beatings and other physical conditions there in one form of political prisoner said he was incarcerated and everyone was bad tooth peaking to him. the eu and the us have reacted today to the treatment of alexei navalny more broadly with a

. >> well, i think the most significant person who has been sanctioned is the fsb director.o the old kgb is the russian intelligence service responsible for trying to kill navalny with novichok, a military grade nerve agent, not only once they tried as many as three times according to the investigation. now, look, the sanctions the prosecutor general, his deputy and a host of other kremlin officials have been named. these sanctions are largely symbolic, however, because most of these people do not summer in east hampton or to our knowledge any way they don't own penthouse apartments in manhattan, they don't invest in the united states. i will add, though, that he came to washington, d.c. as recently as 2018 during the trump administration for a rather strange con fab about counterterrorism and joined by the heads of the gru, russia's military service and sbr foreign intelligence service. there's a good chance he will not be coming to the shores in the near future. but consider this, if you're the director of the fsb, it is a badge of honor to be sanctioned by the united stat

the president imposing sanctions on people close to vladimir putin and the fsb, the intelligence service,oning of a. we saw in the case of saudi arabia the united states said we have a position of not sanctioning foreign leaders. i assume we'll not see sanctions placed on vladimir putin directly, but he is likely to pay a price. if you are joe biden, think about your motivation here. you have seen from this odni report about election interference that russia was peddling this misinformation, and a lot of that misinformation was about joe biden's family, about his son hunter. he has an extra personal motivation to take this very seriously. >> i have to say, it's not every day you hear a president of the united states saying to another foreign leader, yes, i think he's a killer. that was a moment. >> that's right. and you remember, john, when bill o'reilly interviewed president trump in 2017, made that point, he's a killer, donald trump absolved vladimir putin and said, well, we've got a lot of -- we do a lot of killing, too. we're not so innocent ourselves. joe biden has a very different

washington today will officially accuse, marcus, russia's fsb, their spy agency of poisoning alexey navalnye as you'll remember. instead he went to germany for medical treatment, returned back to russia knowing they'd probably put him in jail and that's what they did. the biden administration is expected to announce sanctions today, the first for the biden white house and they may include >> the director of the fbi and what his agency knew about threats against the capitol. director christopher wray is expected to testify, this is one of several hearings looking into what happened january 6th and how much warning various law enforcement may have had. >>> a government-funded study commissioned before january 6th attacks says better civics education might help reduce the amount of discord in the united states. the study funded in part by the education department will be released today with a road map for civics lessons for school students. the report is expected to say the teachers should concentrate less on things like dates in history and this more on what makes the american experiment and

more are overarching and incorporate a lot more of the traditional, you know, when we would call old fsb tactics as well. so, again, we kind of parse it a bit, but they look at it in a much more holistically than we do. >> so not much better or worse, but just based on how they've done it in the past whereas we have important limitations in place based in a written constitution as a for instance, say we can do certain things and we cannot absolutely do other things. >> i'll say this. and the united states, we are not going to fabricate or alternate publicly. the russians would have no problem doing that and they do that, quite often. >> thank you mister chair. >> thank you mr. larsen, if there are no other questions we will adjourn for 15 minutes and move to our classified briefing. thank you.

and fbi the fsb with sanctions for the poisoning of navalny.ttempt and he's also the former deputy chairman of russia's central bank. i very much appreciate your taking the time to talk to me tonight. we know navalny is ready to be transferred to this penal colony with notoriously brutal conditions. how certain are you putin will not rest until navalny is silenced? >> erin, very glad to be here. i think that putin's primary goal is to make navalny silent. and this that you rightly mentioned is brutal in its internal regiment. it is prohibited for the people there even talk to one another. so they should be silent not only with outside wall. they have no phone. they have no -- they cannot receive letters. they cannot answer letters. but even they are not allowed to talk one to another. let us prefer what putin wants. he wants navalny to disappear from the public appearance. he wants navalny not to be heard in russia and in the world. >> i also want to ask you about what he did when he was released from the hospital. he spent about five months in

really thanks he's actually getting a good long night sleep and effect is probably being, he's living in fsb safehouses under control russian intelligence. and when he sleeps 12 hours it's probably because he's been knocked out and they've already been going through, interrogated them 20 times over going through all this that he brought with him 15000 times for the guys essentially one of the oxford five as far as i'm concerned the cambridge five. stomach and if they're not doing that. even if they did not interrogate him he is still a russian assets and a looser definition of the word he is putin's trophy. when he can claim that russia values human rights, it allows for this perverse argument. so whether they packed into anything that he has in his apartment, he is a russian asset. he is an asset to putin. >> and when the touch on something all these questions at every personal to me. i lived in abu dhabi and the knighted arab emirates. and i read into who were part of the organizations that were hiring out there. at that point i was doing another for mustering other types of intelligence.

iranian activities, whether it was proxy efforts by russian, you know, agents acting on behalf of the fsbder attempts and as they have always done, to influence our politics. one of my friends at the nsa at the time, he was the cyber coordinator, said, you know, russia is the hurricane, and china is climate change, and so when we think about interference and influence in our democracy, russia has these really brazen, high-impact, high-visibility efforts. meanwhile, in the background, china's playing a much slower, quieter game that, in the broader sense of things, i do think as a national security geopolitical threat that china is the number one and -- but russia's right behind them. >> i want to read to you, frank figliuzzi, some of what we learned publicly as a public, and again, this was all information available to donald trump and mr. ratcliffe ostensibly but made available to us for the first time today. i want to dive into some of this with you, frank. a key element of moscow's strategy this election cycle was its use of people linked to russian intelligence to launder influence na