u. s. t e u, the u. k. a straight to canada and japan. all right, let's bring it out. guess for today's discussion for us, started in context on web joined by chris with us. who is the chief executive of micro advisory? that's a strategic business consultancy focused on russia. do you raise up from that? always in capital also we're joined by all and build sites who's a sanctions expert who founded the country risk analysis company co risk. he also helped to write a recent report that investigated how russian sanctions are being ignored and from washington dc. and the total leaving is the director of the razor program at the quincy institute for responsible state draft. and the gentleman, welcome to you all. i'll start with you then chris, what do you make of these up domestic growth, full cost figures for russia as well? they look optimistic but to an actual effects. uh but, but really does numbers show is that the economy is stabilized. is, is large the being driven, but with a combination of a military industrial, complex spending, which is having, of course, a big