mr erich krauss alive mr krause thank you very much indeed for that. why and here's why the ukrainian government is under pressure now thousands of protesters as well as the opposition in parliament want to move the country towards europe but the government thinks that's premature saying brussels is not offering perks like membership and the privileges most europeans enjoyed there than there's a believe that live closer to europe would be cheaper but the government warns the deal would actually damage the economy for little compensation their positions too and says here should resist pressure from moscow but close economic ties with russia including a free trade zone a shared business landscape and increased exports to pull the states together and it's still a matter of great debate whether ukraine will get more out of the deal with russia with the european union let's not discuss that with robert oulds chair of the bridge group same time mr olds welcome to artie's great to see you today so when the europeans protest against the e.u. the police are nev

indeed for your time and now asset manager erich krauss joins me now live from venice to talk about the international reaction on this latest announcement mr kraus welcome so do you think decisions like like this one. could make a russia more attractive for foreign investment invest i don't know i think i'm going to take a slightly different viewpoint on that and then i don't think it's our investors care very much i think foreign journalists care but the people who are actually investing in russia have learned to discount very deeply what they read in the press and quite frankly there has been orchestrated campaign in the western press against russia if mr putin step down was replaced by the other to rest russia wouldn't get very much better press in the mainstream so i don't think it's going to make a lot of difference can both be downplayed as a p.r. stunt or seen as a step forward in the eyes of the west. i don't think that that is really what counts at this point. so i don't understand what motivated it and my personal view is it's a mistake i think by freeing her coast they created another barrier is a scheme a multi-billionaire who