an extra stipulation for russia. that's a critical words, words matter when you're dealing with russians and russian policy. this is an x, the central issue in russia is committed the national survival of russia to this conflict. and they are not going to deal. they are not going to draw it away. anything less that achieving the outcomes that they have articulated, which is no nato membership, the militarization of ukraine di notification to be trained anything less than that is a strategic defeat for russia. therefore, unacceptable to russia, in the less needs to understand that in pushing russia to this good, remember this conflict didn't begin in february 22. this conflict began well prior to 2014, but it, it took a detroit form in 2014, and russia has been seeking to avoid this conflict that entire time. what do you think permits one was? what do you think the bench to was? what do you think the rushing the effort to of to ensure us to get to main street in this, of all over the effort to avoid this very situatio

we are about containing russia. and if we don't start off the truck, the administration start off, not only by preventing a nuclear war by seizing this attack on russia, but by openly saying that we no longer are seeking the strategic defeat of russia. because that's the, that's the, that there is a requirement for going forward. if we continue to pursue a policy that speak 6, the strategic defeat of russia, russian will never sit down at the table with us. why sit down and talk to an enemy who's trying to defeat you? what you need to do therefore, is defeat the enemy, which is what russia is doing on the battlefield. a new, great, david, the way the it's being reported that, you know, mean what's coming out of the, by the ministration. which of course is trying to make the situation as worse as possible. that is a new and remarkable achievement of this outgoing failed administration. but essentially what they're doing is they're saying what's have min minutes 3. i mean it's, you know, almost no one knows that becau

russia is dependent on china in ways that china is not dependent on russia. but who is standing up for this alternative vision and pushing back most vigorously against the west? it is russia, not china. in that respect, it is not clear to me that they see themselves as russian partners and at some point russian greatness will not allow us to sustain that posture. bay: we have a question in coming from in from a member online. >> we will take the next question from robert hormetz. >> i would like to follow-up up richard's point on the trade issue. because one of the most important elements in trying to contain this grouping particularly in china, and to get other countries who you mentioned might be more attracted to china because of trade relations, the united states needs to have a coherent trade policy with countries other than the g7 oecd countries , which means a number of the emerging markets, global south. the problem is, in this administration, which you would have thought would have been inclined in that direction, it has been the opposite. like the p

if we look at russia, russia is exercising grand strategy, which means that it's uses all instrument of steve craft, military, economic, diplomatic, and otherwise. and this new cooperation is to reflect the realities, the geopolitical realities. and i'm not just referring to the fact that the gold trump and his administration might be going after he rides nuclear program. but also the fact that both countries, um, as has already been stated, i have always sanction meaning that russia had to look for new markets and forwards, commodities. that being said, if lucas, the geographic position of you run iran is a very important route to india is we have to solve said. and we have a non ser development in the, in the region, meaning the cooperation of neighboring countries with western countries such as the strategic cooperation, signed by armenia and the united states. so it offers the geopolitical counterbalance. we have, on the one hand, we have room unions, the united states, we have a 0 by john and turkey. so the russian uranium corporation is another piece of the puzzle in order to c

russia was very separate. the economy was separate and so it was for the rest of the world and that sort of when they worked and deepened and developed and became powerful. now we are back in a time of great power competition where the commercial rules, china doesn't follow the commercial rules these follow. so don't think they are fit for purpose. the question we are grappling with is can we make them fit, do we search for other ones and i think what's happening which in my view there's a lot of meetings and photo ops but not a lot of stuff there, just shows how hard it is in world great power competition how to create something that's much more comprehensive. >> rush: it is not just the postwar institutions that aren't fit for purpose but the new institutions either. china and india for example. or in the shanghai cooperation organisation which is stalled which is a mistake china should've thought about. michelle: there is this interesting sort of paradox where there is a tremendous amountbecause there are s

putting pressure on russia, putting pressure on the wrong as global tensions rise, russia, iran, north korea, and china will likely continue to confront what they see as west. and it tends to isolate and challenge them. mike, level l, g 0 for the inside story. the that's bringing out guess into her on hassan. i'm in the, in professor of the university of toronto and must go, yeah, just left myself, a former russian diplomat and chapman of the russian friendship with society, with our countries and munich, maureen, up there on a post doctoral research at the tense studies department at kings college london award. welcome to you. oh, i'd like to start entire on 1st. this is a wide ranging agreement test. one is also potentially a very long last and one wide disagreement and why now? well, i think the wait a minute is basically to solidify the enhanced think relationship between the iran pressure and broaden the spectrum. the 2 countries are working on. of course you can always in trade is front and center. so other aspects are included. both countries are under sanctions and i think this

this is how things happen in russia.will be back in my homeland, and i think it's going to be much quicker than many people today could expect. vladimir kara—murza, i wish we had more time, but we don't. thank you very much indeed forjoining me from washington. thank you so much for having me. hello. there were winners and losers when it came to the weather story on thursday. for parts of north—west england and wales in particular, we have blue sky and sunshine, even some january warmth, with a high of 14 celsius. but it was a different story across the midlands — we had quite a lot of fog in the morning that lifted to low grey cloud. the misty conditions lingered, and for parts of hereford and worcestershire, well, temperatures only climbed just up to 4 celsius. it was also quite windy, and there was a weak weather front bringing some outbreaks of showery rain to the north—west of scotland. but most of us under the influence of high pressure, and with light winds and that high pressure is going to stay with us for the n

so saying, proclaims russia was to become poland. new world, such as the conquest of russia was compared to the discovery of america, with its people sharing the faith of indigenous tribes. the powerless king no longer needs to try to risk boys. then he sent some new conditions far from the original, the green tubs, the owner of russia, should convert to catholicism. polish nobles will occupy state posts, and he gets more into subs that comes to suffering regions by y'all to go away. so you will see more folks each because most that so i don't want to see if you want to put in l. c o. c there stokes. i did too much for. yeah . so something use our call. no. pro force coordinates. that's a dear that isn't that, but you don't have a voice to consequence of what it was mailed, change meaning and the principal shanaski who had to solve the issue with the intervention is settled in the kremlin. the entire russian rows of the gates, the russians comics, taught us body and bush cares. more things and food modes, tolls of expelled the countr

the ever been here in russia. the i've only lived here a few months, but i wanted to tell you what fascinates me about russia and share the stories of other foreigners who lived here. like jay who worked as a chef and now raises godes to mix cheese in the countryside. like chad who has been granted political asylum because he's being persecuted by the f b. i like an american family. that recently moved to russia with 6 children, the the, the year we are happy to be here. this is my friend joe. a few months ago he immigrated to russia with his large family. now i'm on the way to visit him. i want to find out why he decided to move here and how he likes it in russia. are you doing pretty good. the joe is an i t program manager. he worked in many large companies including microsoft, but he gave up everything and moved to russia with his wife and 6 children. and now they're about to have a 7. so apparently they had a very good reason to relocate. did he talk you interested? no, i think to be honest, we 1st rich the sa

they obviously have filed russia has continued to accumulate. uh for, for an um, for the reserves sides, it still gets a lot of money from sending an edge it to the world markets. if you think about your dependency relation dependence on russian gas, which i think a see, it says open coffee, steam that is pretty huge. exaggerated in europe has not post on function with all the russian gusts of, um, uh, included, russia has stopped functioning without sitting is goes to europe. so i saw the i, the sides have been blow so robust to rush cuz lots of ready to use from gas. but i have to say that's i'm most of for us and revenues from southern energy costs from oil a new way. so we were as gospel rushing, my statement, opening of god for gas has been huge, very hot in terms of losing its most lucrative market to um, to sanctions, uh, uh, the roster itself has been able to find ons. um, you know, it's more and it's um, um economy because it says have to get supplies to europe which including building up um your supplies to places like into which kind

that could be good for russia, but maybe not. putin's forces are slowly advancing in ukraine, but at a staggering cost. the economic strain of war and sanctions is beginning to bite. my guest is vladimir kara—murza, the anti—putin activist, poisoned, thenjailed before being freed in a prisoner swap last year. putin can seemingly rely on the quiescence of the russian people. but for how long? vladimir kara—murza, in washington dc, welcome to hardtalk. hello, stephen. it's very good to be on your programme. it is great to see you there in washington. you, of course, have had pretty much six months now to get used to being a free man. are you used to it? well, frankly, it's still feels a little bit surreal because, you know, up untiljust a few months ago i was pretty certain that i was going to die in that siberian prison. and the prisoner exchange that happened on the 1st of august was a miracle — this is the only way i can express it. but it was in so many ways a human—made miracle because it was made possible by the relentless ad

. . . , , russia began.proach the third anniversary _ russia began. sarah, as we approach the third anniversary of _ russia began. sarah, as we approach the third anniversary of russia's - the third anniversary of russia's full—scale invasion on the 22nd of february, three years at this ongoing fighting, you mentioned there the issues that ukraine's military has in plugging the gaps on the front lines, what is around like across the country? you the front lines, what is around like across the country?— the front lines, what is around like across the country? you know, it is difficult. obviously, _ across the country? you know, it is difficult. obviously, this _ across the country? you know, it is difficult. obviously, this country i difficult. obviously, this country is exhausted, obviously, the cost it has paid in nearly three years of war has been enormous, in terms of the lives lost, in terms of the damage to full—scale invasion on the 22nd of february, three years at this ongoing fighting, you mentioned

and russia isn't stripe for past either. it's actually helping out others by launching a financial support fund for investment projects in africa in 2025 to the to know $2000000000.00 minimum. which brings us to the next points, the is always sciences and see and longer and actually push slusher. so become better by expanding. and so the flight is friendships with all the partners around the world who are very eager to do business with moscow and reshape of global power dynamics. something was became crystal clear from russia, a host of the 16th brick summit the the, the west basically pushed across the end, the global south into each other's arms. and they are now focused on building a union reflecting the new realities of a multi paula world, which doesn't mix business with politics, something which became evident when you cry and tried to get an international financial watch, though, so blacklist russia only to be met with objections from breaks power houses like china in the south africa and even the persian gulf monarch

s, president, whoever that us present it is going to offer russia that russian will accept and, and russia's terms are unacceptable to any us president, an attempt by the donald trump administration to, uh, you know, play a role in, oh, he's going to cut a deal between russia and ukraine as if he some kind of neutral outside arbiter is just patently false. this is ultimately a conflict between russia and the united states. uh, on the united states. it is a proxy war, but it is a conflict to the us is losing, and trump owns that conflict. as soon as he comes into office and whatever, he may think of the average him and zalinski and in person in whatever, you know, political domestic gripes he has against them justified. he does not want to be known as the president to hand the ukraine over to vladimir pro. no, us president wants that on that record. so i predict that the. busy will continue, it will excel accelerate, it will escalate. and when porton talks to donald trump or his, you know, envoys or whatever and says yes, you know, oh thank you very much, but yet, yeah, it means net and then

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we and russia and america and europe are now. it seems to me this technical data is important to understand how, to support how and what influences and what are the risks for everybody else. if we recall, the full scale of russia in 02 -- 2022, we know the russian military contingent constituted around 200,000 personnel. they have come from the north with this contingent with missiles, from the south, from the east, but they had around estimation 200,000 plus the separatists that still control parts of the east, donetsk and luhansk, the parts they control. it was difficult for us without anybody's help and i am very much grateful that america and europe have stepped in, but you must know that as of now 600,000, 600,000 -- 600,008 russian troops are on the territory of ukraine. that is three times multiplied the contingent that invaded us at the beginning of 2022. if somebody says there is enough aid, compared -- compare back then to now. back then, america's aid was around 90%. now, what our military has on the battlefield is 40%

we're going to have them fight russia now, because russia is a threat to us. but that's obviously not the case. so what they're doing is they're keeping the conflict on a low burn. yeah, in order to one, facilitate the military industrial profits, which in turn, pays for the think tanks, which in turn pays for the politicians. secondly, the slow burn european union. there your opinion, it was hoping it would weaken russia. however, it touched has a strength of strength and russia, and now they are in full panic and they're trying to come up with these silly 200 year political the. so i just want to tell everybody the u. k. has a 100 year security agreement with you, correct. but we don't even know if your credit is going to make it to the end of the year that this is an base our fantasy. go ahead with i. i remember reading in one of my books there at charles, the goal, one of the true statesmen of europe, a charles to go as an old friends, french pressure and said that treaties are like roses. they're beautiful until they are not. and this is the same with the

we understand on the 1st of january, a 5 year deal between ukraine and russia came to an end. russia was adamant in 1st continuing that deal to ensure that energy flowed into europe, butts. ukraine, of course, oppose it. and we also recall the north stream attack in 2022, which rendered a great deal of russian exports to germany as well as the rest of the e. u, essentially meaningless. and this, of course, these 2 other alternatives, the blue stream and the church stream, both which run under the black sea serves not just russian or turkish and interests . but we understand that it also serves the interest of countries like hungry serbia, boston, hartzog, avina, slovakia, as well as greece. this is a significance, a step. this is a significant development if we take all of this into context. and we also understand that there's been a great deal of opposition or at least the slow but prime minister has been quite vocal in his position suggesting that the ukrainian leader of let him is unless he is someone who rooms your begging and black mailing western nations in the hope of extracti

we don't want a war with russia but the threat of a war with russia is what would make russia back down. guest: do you worry about the potential for security escalation there, either vertical or horizontal, something like nuclear war? guest: i do not, the reason because there are a lot of factors that mitigate against vladimir putin wanting to use nuclear force even though he threatens it all the time. they would be literal fallout for him, he also doesn't know what it would mean politically for him inside of russia. he's not in a very strong position politically inside russia, let's not forget about a year and a half ago when the russian warlord leader marched on moscow and if he had had a real partner inside the military establishment in russia he could have taken vladimir putin down. vladimir putin has demonstrated to be very weak in that instance. host: earlier this month, represented adam smith was a top democrat on the armed services committee as you both know, he was asked about the incoming trump administration and how a gop controlled congress might approach the conflict in ukr

and then, oh, russia, that's gone. and, and so now, you know, the, the, it's in the around that's in the cross hairs. and what are they going to do, really without any question. that's all drunk is going to launch. this is a maximum pressure campaign. 2 point. oh. and you will find all kinds of separate this move. when's the emerging any wrong in a blue gives us areas um arabs tubs codes, and one of which will cause be sponsored by the united states. and then into around the world will find most of the, some liberal movements emerging. you know, women will be demonstrating, taking off that he jobs and the michael, the guy says democracy is friday. and then of course, a given list of the chaos that's, let's go to imagine syria isis. isis is everywhere. you know, so huh. you know, that we, you know, we have to deal with isis. and the americans are going to say it as a realized as sudden like suddenly, suddenly they came back suddenly and he came back. we have to deal with it. and that's with the moment when they gave us

rich russia, the real documents. if i'm to, to remove brooks to the phones, livonia is an ancient russian system, dating back from the times of grand new piano slough, named duty upon baptism. who content the 2 lands and erected there, a city named in his own beauty of devonte and country pledge to pay tribute to russia and delivery and sent men to bound down to our grandfather, the great sovereign devonne and our father, that's all revel russia fussing. and seats about the needs of peace. russia has challenges and documents to prove it to claim to have on the terrible in his letter . so he felt he acted justly. he does not take what belongs to others, but other people times most been known to roost from ancient times. and poland had no claims to these lands because livonia wasn't able to run the punish rules. the fall tunes of war change fast to punish ami takes the toner and value kill you and procedure and no one was fed in a frenzied saddle. the king took the smoldering ruins, covered with blood, and toe, and bow

and of course the names of russia and the names of ukraine. we'd always be there because of the ukrainians, if they don't have what's on the ground. also seen as a conduit of, of weapons. but particularly when you have the f k for the subsidy in the mix, we always look to that part of the supplies of the k 47. so the situation is an interesting one. so if you have play as in the continent of africa, africa is once again, a sort of conflict. russia expressing ourselves through soft power in southern cases, even being allowed to establish military bases in southern cases if and being invited to take over the basis that i've been a bundled by the west. with that, that is a good or bad thing. the judy is bailout, but i hold the view that the relationship between the african countries and russia must be defined. it must be a relationship that is not one of dominance, but is one of collaboration and as concerns ukraine. i or the view that on till now, i have not seen evidence that they have been invited by in the country to participate on. the parti

so don't wanted and russia itself. and i, even though it was, you know, we bought into uh, got supply, but they really don't want to. you know, what could i deal says such a scenario straight. we do find why you create high that means wanted to restore if, if it was the results of savings to you, they would want to just um, remaining um notes due to pipeline which hasn't been blowing off yet. um and uh, the guest prospects don't, don't look good so far for russia about the time, you know, they're not in terms of the energy, which i think they just finishing a new facility on the multics which can use double the gas from the for just as an old stream. uh they did the ra pipelines to china. the only problem is that the new pipeline which would come from the, the gym all opinions july. his chinese, the, i think very hard negotiations on the doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. but broadly speaking, i so they will survive it. you know, it's not, belittle, could you have a rising process of domestic life for, for

it's not convicted a single case relating to russia. the financial investigations of this nature are typically complex and lengthy. as a result that have been no concluded prosecutions for offences under the new sanctions and anti money laundering act. i'm not despite the o f s o i being given an extra 50000000 pounds of british tax payers money. new powers provided by the economic crime act are being harnessed to enforce sanctions proactively. the office of financial sanctions implementation is ensuring the case . financial sanctions are robust and enforced against anyone who seeks to circumvent them. unfortunately, it seems that the o f s i is old book guns, no bite of the 52 cases it's looked into. 15 has been dismissed with no fines or any other punishment. it's still looking at $37.00 of the cases, the progress as nothing. in fact, the most b o, f i saw i has been able to achieve is a fine to a property management company. what so i can choose, what was it in breach? you'll view me one, the one talking to the crying is, did it help

and denmark also joined the war against russia. the vatican provides huge amounts of money with which bus 3 high assume, just from home over your italian engine, is give him the latest weapons most as capable of firing and sensually bombs and setting rushes and looking fortresses on file. just like today's american democrats, 3 use as the freedom of russia for the able to terminate this justification for war mo bile printing shops prepare leaflets, appealing to russians to so called flaunted letters are surprisingly similar to today is western propaganda state to state that the europe brings good and freedom to russians. at the same time, russians, upper traders, people enemies in europe. leaflets and brochures, details of the dangers from their incursions. water atrocities, musket binds, commit to against christie and prisoners. men and women versions of children written printed in devonian newton book, 50 and 61, the russians, sorry, field assigned to talk about the research. i mean, it was, they weren't too old for my peers. and

attempts to isolate russia. a we can explain, or we can interpret such partnerships with the north korea and with a launch as a break in this attempts to isolate russia and putting in a, in a position that is being isolated are all the work. and then that's a and that's a and this is also we can look at the washer and also attempts to break this kind of ruling. the order was establishment. all for breaks out. so lovely. some of that, let me ask her about that because i know that you are a specialist on the rushes to use a soft power. and i was wondering if, by sticking to this long term details, the grievance, russia is also trying to on essentially exemplify what kind the world daughter is, wants to seize. it wants to see if, you know something that is based on concrete agreements, where countries actually stick to that words regardless of the political occurrence, while a treaty assigned means of truth assigned. and that it will last but you know, for the time that the, that is specified. do you think that's a

russia's energy sector. now they claim that this list of sanctions is the most significant, one to date, against a rough shot target in russian oil and gas exports, including rushes, major oil producers know that includes gust from nest. and so would know that as well as subsidy, there is an additive to that we're providing services to both oil companies, including insurance and transportation. the us treasury also issued a determination to allow in american authorities to impose sanctions against any person determine to operate or has operated in the energy sector of russia over 2000 subsidies of the companies were also added to the sanctions list. and they've also targeted over a 180 vessels, largely oil tankers linked to what the u. s. had describes the shuttle fleet of russia operators used to ship russian oil and over 30 russian based oil field service providers were also slapped with restrictions. now this is interesting because this comes just a little bit over a little bit more than a week before biv

russia's full—scale invasion.eross—border eonf'et ess'd ..,,........-,-....... under and eross—border sonftiet sssts ~ under more come under more pressure and that pressure extends to schools and their than 20 schools and their more than 20 million children out of school in they are funding here in they are funding several education programmes. pakistan also hosts 3 afg ha ns 77 7 afghans and 77 7 afghans and 1.4 77 7 afghans and 1.4 million docum77ented documented and i spoke to refugee, a who prégna nt sis... 7-7?” pregnant and 7 pregnant and she was due to was pregnant and she was due to be resettled in that pro- ramme has that programme has also she asks me how she can afford daily life when that support is being cut off. was already stretched thin. and we're not talking about full meals. we're talking about things like bread and tea. is or was the single largest donor in afghanistan, the consensus here in southern africa is that president trump's executive order will have a devastating impact on social servic

but for the west, they need a strategic defeat of russia, which russia is denying them. that's the dilemma jim. well, i was going to say, look, when they invoke mintz, i think what they want to do is minutes, 3 or minutes before i think they think they can get the russians to go along with them on the basis of oh, that was biting support. that was there for, we'll be really good guys. we'll keep our word this time. you know, as i st. you, i agree with you. i agree, but i, i, that's what they're going to go for. i agree. and unless they get that, if the fresher ends up with the 4 o less than premiere and neutralize nato, everybody's going to know who won whatever word they went, they use, they use or not. and the europeans for 3 years have been saying, we cannot allow that to happen. or it's a loss. yeah, i see. but, but, but, but, but to him that is in ideological choice. okay. it's not a real list choice. i mean, you know, i was a trained to story and up until 1945 great powers. sometimes what a war sometimes said loss. okay. that's still, you know, that's what happened

was living in russia a few years ago of this uh, printer. uh, all of this uh, activities were used as a pretext to monitor the communication off of russian citizens. and then in many cases, used to suppress this. it is no developed country blocks messages for refusing to given cribson case to intelligence agencies, abolishing the right to privacy is a cure that is more dangerous than the disease itself. well, yes, he's fighting for francis digital future now and the west, even though he's already caved and has agreed to hand over ip addresses and phone numbers of users upon valid legal request. whatever that is, it's not russia that's making him check in with authorities twice. would be pending trial like a jealous girlfriend who blows up your phone with text messages when you're out for the night. guessing figure that may be the worst that could happen in the west is that he'd be yelled at by his, derek will public officials. mister zachary, are you into companies before us? i know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hand

and russia will talk to august shortly. but 1st, this report from victoria couldn't be of russia and the soviet union spend half a century becoming a major supplier of gas to europe. but the war in ukraine has oh, but destroyed that business for the state energy giant gas problem. and now, russia's oldest gas supply line to the european union through ukraine. his shots after a 5 year deal between moscow and keys expired. which to the list of point is uh, we will always in favor of gas appliance of the supplies being above politics of the and being purely economic methods. we never said nothing to supplies to europe . ukraine, nearly a $1000000000.00 in transit fees last year. fawcett says, payments for the gas of helped russia to wages will run the country. russia is expected to lose $5000000000.00 annually. european country, most affected by the end of the transit deal is mold a is a, it's not part of the european union. it's being forced to impose a 60 day state of emergency and its energy sector before rush or invaded uk

they certainly. — on russia's economy? they certainly, they _ on russia's economy? have had - on russia's economy? they certainly, they have had an| certainly, they have had an economic impact in russia. today we see very high inflation there, the value of the rouble has really tumbled. the growth rates were strong because russia has a war economy and it is still making billions of dollars in revenue from hydrocarbon billions of dollars in revenue from hydrocarbo

whether it's 2025, all across the russia. and the nation's presidents loved him and put in his banks, old russians for the unity that help to overcome the issues the contra faced this past year. but i see it's a video of both napoleon, russia, this period has been filled with significant events. many of them of historical importance of way, but we have set of issues, goals, and achieve them repeatedly, overcoming challenges because we have been together. this is how well, what are you need to? well, not sure how we're facing our selves and our capabilities have grown stronger. yes, we still have a lot to work on. i'd say to what we can rightfully be proud of what we have already accomplished. this is our common heritage here. that's a reliable foundation for further development than you showed us. we are at the heart of moscow in the red square, and yes, well, it is close to the public and for security reasons, that did not stop people from coming out to celebrate. and as i'm speaking, there's a huge crowds right next to me.

and that there was being used to fight a proxy will in russia. and i remember the, the bus set out of ukraine was actually summoned in the bama cool by the administration of a to be great. and there was told that if you don't stop but dissipating in the insurgency in molly is then we are going to expand, you are going to see, but diplomatic ties. and they are quite a number of accusations in visiting god. and it must be understood once to gain in context, the russian involvement in many of these conflicts is seen to be a little different from the involvement of ukraine. seems to be different in visiting that it is this government of the central african republic, for example, that the invite the group. because the y insurgency, that was fun, said by multiple parties, including the french. it is also the case that in countries such as book, enough us, so on the if any news that one's the americans had been expelled. it is these administrations that invited the russian administration of the russian army to offer both training and support. so the pre

, even in the event of a peace deal between russia and ukraine. duda told the bbc that the nordstream gas pipelines, which haven't been used since 2022, should be dismantled. that was just one of the issues he addressed in a wide—ranging interview with our economics editor faisal islam at davos. some look at russia and see the sanctions effort, which they seem to be resisting for the past year, the economy seems to be ok, but maybe just now it is starting to hurt russia. is that what you see? do you think at this moment all of the sanctions are working? and what does that mean the west should does that mean the west should do right now? translation: i smile when i see politicians taking such decisive actions right now on russia and they are expressing their fear that donald trump might leave ukraine on its own and leave it to russia because they are the ones that recently did business with russia and there are some saying they would like to see business as usual being restored as soon as possible because that is being demanded of them by their own

the quote distinction between the russia on the west. in the 1909 does, the undertakings was given to the russians. the nato would not expand to the east, and when is the nato countries thought the dix funding to they used with they are firing enticement to the key of government to join data in union. then the cont, decisions acquired a totally different kind of that context is important for us to appreciate in order to understand what is now been caught in the rise of the involvement of ukraine on even russia in the african continents. the most important thing that's happened recently in print it didn't default is when the government of molly accused ukraine direct that there was supporting inside agencies in mali. and that there was being used to fight a proxy will in russia. and i remember the, the best set out of ukraine was actually summoned into bama cool by the administration of a team. great. and there was told that if you don't stop participating in the insurgency in molly, then we are going to expand, you are going to see, but

so the presence of russia, as opposed to the presence of ukraine, is seen and explain differently. but as it is in the methods of these a nature, they don't with the different arguments by both sides of the device that allows us to examine the presence of russia. then we come to the presence of ukraine in the continent of africa. and particularly in the conference due to the conflict in so that a number which as we have said on said diamond time again, russia been under the soviet union was not the typical quarter nicer. and the reason passed after the collapse of the body in wall, there has been what is described as the russian soft file on visit. osh and soft file has been seen as the count, the weight to the traditional power of the western countries which retained the military basis in the continent of africa. the french with the ministry basis in different parts of the quarter. and these, the americans of cost expressing the powers through different small, di national agencies. and russia was not, in many of these cases, participant in the intimate way is that the western powe

petersburg, russia right now. my 1st time and it's probably the coldest day since i've arrived in russia, i am feeling it to my bones right now. the pills are due to it's up how you doing more? here's the role of the frozen as well. what you tomorrow i can't feel anything. oh no you came. i think you brought this weather with you man. yeah, i'm not good. it is so i don't know to go back and tell me a little bit about yourself. like, uh, what, what made you decide to come to russia? i received the asylum and so far as i know, the next man, if there's no to get it. and that's american, the us embassies and 4 countries that come after me is wild. and so with a couple of theories, the one that most people come to me 1st is like, oh, there's just a bunch of bureaucratic mistakes, but there's no way they ran at our house in 2002 in cyprus. they have a huge file and my wife, they've interrogated me, they visited me and vote here in prison. personally, a guy came, they tried to make deals. and also from microsoft, i cover