towards some kind of reconciliation and then now after being elected he seems to echo more of what puerto shanker was saying and then i hear he wants to meet with putin but merkel and mccrone have to be there i guess as some kind of chaperon i don't know john give us a broad picture of what's going on in ukraine. well you know peter i think that this is an occasion not for political commentary but instead for literary criticism . there is a strong tradition in the twentieth century and incidentally a tradition that's in many ways linked to ukraine of surrealism and satire in literature some of the greatest writers in russia like mccardell dark of nikolai gogol have described fantastical scenarios in which reality and fiction blend into one another and in which you don't know which is which and very often this satire is used in a political context it's particular case of course with goggle who knows famous stories the inspector all the knows are about satirizing political authority and this is a an old russian tradition this mingling of fiction and reality and politics it goes back if you like to

members of the panel here i think a lot of business interests are really sick and tired of how puerto shanker has steered the economy and and also has a great deal to do with official care of as i call it. post my down here and there there are attitude towards russia well it is really wrecked havoc on the economy. in theory you know you can redirect the economy countries like ana me in a different direction but the european union certainly is not interested in much of what ukraine makes and and the official kiev has been denied the russian market it seems to me that and i'm not singing the praises of color money scheme but i'm sure people like him are saying look this this is a dead end we're not going to be embraced by the european union any time soon with considering all of its problems there has to be some kind of approach moment with russia and i know that's very hard in ukraine right now but there seems to be an opening at least. in london go ahead. the that was a very good point that i've made in a my report presented for the. book room think tank over the report tiger will tighten the