and their, president, ed varona, vice president, randy levinas, working for the coalition of u.s./russia trade and working on this effort to, to promote russia's graduation from the jackson/vanek amendment and being granted permanent normal trade status. which we hope will happen sometime soon this year. so with that let me turn the floor over to the ambassador. sorry, the ambassador. my apologies. >> our guest of honor. >> i was trying to achieve a measurement of success. [ inaudible ] for >> the amendment that was introduced way back in the cold war time. and following the disagreement. and with the united states, the immigration since then. we have progressed in our relations with israel significantly. it is a friendly country. and the visa with each other. russians go to israel. >> i think you probably have to switch the microphone on. >> and coming back, russian origin. coming back with ideas. with sometimes, money, technologies. to work in the country that they know very well. and that is quite normal. i would say that we have -- normalcy in our relations with israel but we