not, not a member of russia, russia, tori of the main sc agreement. you should know that it's not a signatory to it, right. it's an into the government in care of that will not implement the minsk agreements. it's quite remarkable. even at the, at the, the recent summit we had the us implicitly, i think even explicitly said there is a process. it's the mens process, but its proxy, ukraine won't do it. it's incumbent if ukraine is interested in its sovereignty and it, and protection of the it's borders it should. that's the starting point. ok. it, but it's ignored. well, protecting its orders when russia next this territory from it. well, i don't think, i think that power dynamic certainly didn't, and i did not. and it said that it's not inappropriate legal term ukraine to rejoin russian. russia didn't take it by force, it was already there. you got to get the narrative straight here. let me go to dimitry here. dmitri, the, you know, ok, russia, security interests are always completely ignored, as if they don't exist. i mean, you have the most powerful

so most people think that they have to either pull russia back into the us orbit or china and russia, china, and text us. it will be impossible to fight a true front work. so i think that this is kind of the usual thinking, but i think rather it's not the soviet union, the economy, it's the size of italy, it's much smaller. but as we know, some analysts sometimes, you know, they're, they're superpower is to upsize the liberal international order. so i think and to, to disrupt. so i think that i think by having kind of put up a test balloon to see how china, how russia would respond to this. because let's face it, they are a junior partner to china, chinese academy, a huge. and as they corporate more and more, i mean it, china doesn't have any allies. that's their narrative. but it's kind of a front of me is type of alliance. and i think that russia and china actually have a lot of common cause. the that they don't like the us together and they work together closely in the united nation. so it was a way, i think, for providing to test the waters and put in fields because at the end of

yeah, you raised, actually a good point, actually, russia, russia, what i can tell you what russia stands for, actually what, what is the rational position to watch the j 7 summit or anything like like as my esteemed american colleagues at that going in the real crisis is going on, and i'm the ukranian crisis. the so called pleasuring of mr. volley. and what else? a rush actually full for all years of these sanctions. russia got used to lisa joined positions united states from the european union and european and the j 7. and i even will be brave to say that russia has the sanction the actually to, to the, to this point. so this is the point and i agree with that that the, the, the strong, the strong, the strong statements on behalf of awfully j 7 seems to be relevant for them. because i think that for russia, the bill sion bellows crisis. what 7 of all the crisis ukrainian crisis, these are the matters which should be psycho not without. not without sorry, without the external interference. and russia will say with a grace katy, i would agree that there should be external, interferes. the

on russia. 's you will see how my colleagues and i conducted surveys to figure out if russians are lying when they answer questions about putin's approval how we identify propaganda campaigns and then match political graffiti to match the u protest and use the data for economic elites and unfortunately this is had zero impact on public debates on russia so the goal in this book is to bring the research to light its high quality research i try to be on the forefront but i go as fast as i can to keep up with my younger colleagues were doing this terrific research. i also mix in personal anecdotes for my adventures y and misadventures the last 30 years in russia. how i worked as an exhibit guide for the cultural exchange and i was the first that they met in showing them what it's like to live under the autocracy. nasa describe my experiences with the russian sec in the 19 nineties and what it has been like that of the research institute over the last decade so this makes the book a better read. the

it is not friendly with russia. it says in the future, it would like to be, but it's taking no steps in that direction. and you know, that's just the unfortunate reality of the times. we live in britain is maximum security, bella prisons or quite the crowd on tuesday and i'm more of m p 's join supporters of duty and songs for protest outside the vicinity where the wicked ex co founder is currently being held. the politicians handed in across party, left a prison in which they pulled out. velma shoes, refusal to l. a meeting with a sons approach. it comes off the main witness in the us case against the songs report or the admitted giving false testimony and exchange for immunity. from prosecution we heard from a former leader of you can position serving coban. it was among those approaches. i visited many prisons and many prisoners over all the years. i've been a member of parliament and is perfectly normal. the members of parliament granted with due process of facility. we now want a group of us to be able to talk

it is not friendly with russia. it says in the future, it would like to be, but it's taking no steps in that direction. and you know, that's just the unfortunate reality of the times. we live in now, britain's maximum security belmore, the prison, so quite the crowd today. a number of m. p. 's join supporters of julian assange for a protest outside the facility where the wiki school funder is currently being held . the politicians did in the cross party letter to the prison in which they called bell morse's refusal to allow, in meeting with us on the protest comes after the main witness in the u. s. case against the sounds reportedly admitted giving was testimony in exchange for immunity. from prosecution we heard from the former leader of the u. k. l position german corbin, who was among those of the protest. i visited many prisons and many prisoners over all the years. i've been a member of parliament and is perfectly normal. the members of parliament granted with due process of facility over we now want a group o

hard to study russia. it's far away and gives a lot of people room to make claims that are hard to disprove. russia doesn't help things in this sense in that they often politicize the debates themselves in ways that are not helpful at all but one question i kept coming back to is what evidence could i give somebody that would a fair-minded reader consider persuasive and there's some part of it that you will neversu persuade so what i tried here is to load the dice and keep coming at the reader with more evidence. but it's really interesting points and then your second point about the specificity and to steve's point as well this was a tension in the book and may be i go overboard on trying to paint russia too much as a normal autocracy. that was something of a choice and so much of writing about russia is in the vein that putin is like other leaders and is so unique pushing against that you might think i go too far but that was kind of a corrective based on where i think much of the writing on russia is to

's russia resurrected? and has the geographic domain policy scope and weight important policy areas and that means that is overlooked that is the chart that i showed you to be disruptive and sometimes divisive of international policies a wire how has this happened? that's a second part of the argument with domestic politics. so the argument here is putin has the well to use what russia has unconstrained as i mentioned because the deployment of the power resources abroad is determined by politics in russia at home we think what russia is doing abroad we forget what's going on at home but domestic politics drive policy a little more than the interests like geography so that type of regime matters and the decline of the power resources and in terms of policy recommendation are outcomes for the united states there is something about putin's them and exercise a form policy tools so i run a counterfactual what if putin was not empower if the regime is not the autocracy but in fact there are historical counterfact

is the china russia alliance made it america the the cross talking russia, china relations. i'm joined by my guess. mentioned she yang in geneva. he is a professor of international history and politics at the graduate institute of international and development studies engineer. but in israel we have john gong. he is a professor at the university of international business and economics. and here in moscow were joined by alexander luke, and he is head of the department of international relations at the higher school of economics or a gentleman cross talk, roles and effects. that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciated when she and jenny, but let me go to you 1st here. i've been observing it for many, many years, the growing relationship closer, relationship that russia and china had. and it was, you know, a few years ago it was murmurings people mitten mentioned in western media. and now all of a sudden they're in panic mode is if this suddenly happened. well, this hasn't suddenly happened. it's been happening for a very long time. and a, the, this, ru

are they taking russia more seriously because of the russia china relationship? it is growing because i think that's the case. part of it, part of it, part of it. for sure. yes for sure. or let me listen is let me go to john in israel here. i mean, we just heard from luncheon that you know, the, the american, so take russia very seriously, but they don't, they can't seem to stop talking about russia every single day. i mean, you, it's like keystone cops and james bond. you can have them both at the same time. they are obsessed with russia, but they are beginning to really fear china. and because of their, their projection again smote both it's help bring the 2 countries together, which makes perfect logical sense to me, go ahead, john and israel. well, in the us it was a most rival standby to some extent. so, you know, this attitude was long time over time to come to realize that the cannot be perspective from a national power perspective. china is very rapidly in terms of g. t p for trying today is about 70 percent of us. washer is very small and there's a famou

so most people think that they have to either pull russia back into the u.s orbit or china and russia if china attacks the us it will be impossible to fight a two-front war. so i think this is kind of the usual thinking, but i think russia, it's not the soviet union, its economy is the size of italy, it's much smaller, but as we know, as some analysts have said, their superpower is to upset the liberal international order. so i think, to disrupt. i think biden kind of put up a test balloon to see how china -- how russia would respond to this, because let's face it, they are a junior ortner to china. china's economy is huge. china doesn't have any allies, that's their narrative, but it's a frenemies type of alliance, and i think that russia and china actually have a lot of common cause, that they don't like the u.s. together and they worked together closely and the united nations. so it was a way i think for for biden to test the waters and see how putin feels. because at the end of the day, russia and china have a massive border. they have a lot of issues between them, and we've seen

i think i know some of these that speak russia. i'm just saying americans perhaps yes, maybe just perhaps. now a question was posed to the president in connection to the g. b, a ransomware attack about whether or not he believes that putin himself was, was testing. i'm testing president violence. what do you make of that theory? is there any inquiry there's, there's no gravity to that. there's no reason to think that that's the case at all, but it fits perfectly into a median narrative, right? because the question is kind of thrown out of the new thing. putin is testing softball. you're saying, well, it's as he is walking out of the room, right. so he's walking out of the room and the reporter. yes, i do think it's testing you and, and president by turns back and kinda smirks and says like he wouldn't test me. but the thing is, it's all this, it's all the show right. show of, i'm tough and he's trying to get to me when there's been no evidence whatsoever that the, the colonial pipeline attack, it was done by a group called the dark

so the real reason was to go to russia to portray russia in a very negative, dangerous way to justify nato is increasing dangerous prisons on the russian. and also to increase the case for ukraine to be admitted into georgia. we all know that the lee and the, i guess the daniel seabreeze, bob exercises are bland. but this week here was this a trial balloon to see what the reaction was going to. also, we have a british getting so close to a russian sovereign border on the crimea in the black sea is that it was a reconnaissance mission as well, seeing what kind of depends are there. and so, i mean that there's provocation written all over the go ahead. yes, there was a provocation. and with our question, it is about trying to humiliate roster and to mobilize nato into more, more expenditure, more reasons for existence, more expansion. and, but i think also there is a domestic aspect to it, which is the, i mean, the bar is johnson government is in the hopeless tappers, and we have its minutes. the map and coffee resigning this weekend over a situation where he was violating his own cobit

that russia claims. but i know that they the u. k. does not recognize crimea as part of ukraine, but they are russia and, but you know, they have to of 2 different explanations that ukrainian waters, it's international waters. what is it, what are they doing? and it's very and diplomatic. are they looking for a provocation? go ahead, marcus. well, the infamous incident in russian maritime alters adjacent to be crime in an inch. was evidently a sage, the publication by both britain and america. and i say america as well, because london and washington acts in unison on the international stage. and that is especially the case when it comes to russia. and this stage convocation was both for holiday and exceedingly dangerous. now, the question is, why did last london washington orchestrates this publication of russia? well, i cannot believe that the americans and the british seriously wish to go to russia into a military confrontation with the west because the americans, in the british know, as we know, that

russia. >> right. this meeting was biden's idea, the initial reach-out was made in april. willie, on monday, joe biden said he will make it clear to putin what the redlines are and if he chooses not to cooperate, acts in a way that he has in the past relative to cyber security and some other activities then we will respond. so he's going in there hot. >> yeah. the question is what does that mean? if he crosses the redline as putin has many, many times just in the last few weeks in the cyberattacks what is the american response. if you look, part of this entire trip for joe biden has been showing the contrast from the last four years. >> yeah. >> and bringing america back as the president put it. you watch that clip from helsinki where jonathan lemire asks the president to say sitting on the stage with vladimir putin that he shouldn't interfered in the election and the disgraceful response where donald trump wouldn't do that. this is about in many ways for joe bide on the stand up there not on

it comes back to this idea of, oh, is russia doing? this is not a mere prudent pulling the strings he actually hacking g. b s. or is it someone who is either russia nationality or even russian speaking? well, i mean there are ethnically chinese people who can speak absolutely. russian. i think a lot of people in ukraine who configuration as well. i think i know some are things that speak russia, so i'm just saying americans perhaps yes, maybe just perhaps now a question was posed to the president in connection to the j. b. s. ransomware attack about whether or not he believes that prudent himself was, was testing and testing president violence. what do you make of that theory? is there any, any there's, there's no gravity to that. there's no reason to think that that's the case at all, but it fits perfectly into a media narrative, right? because the questions kind of thrown out at the end. do you think putin is testing softball? you're saying? well, it's as he was walking out of the room, right. so he's walking out of the room and the

we have to identify those and make clear that when russia and it's not russia, it's really putin and his henchmen do bad things there will be a response. >> to that point, senator, it's something that the president said before he left to russia saying we will respond in kind. that is the message he wants to say and there is concern that that may put america directly in a confrontational point with russia when it comes to issues of cybersecurity. is that something that you're prepared, that congress should be prepared to undertake a direct confrontation with russia when it comes to cyber attacks and cyber offenses and you know, beef up or step up the sanctions against russian individuals who may be involved in these cyber crimes? >> i think we have to be ready and willing to do that, and vladimir putin certainly understands our capacity is much greater than russia's capacity. so far, russia's minimal -- lesser capacity, they've been more willing to use it in mischievous ways and we, as a civilized nation trying to do things right are less forward leaning in using some of these tactics

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to trade properly with russia. again, they are hamstrung by the very fact that they are both members of nato and because they are not able to eliminate american influence european union. i mean, it is remembered during pump, you know, disregarding of disrespecting allies, but actually what we have to buy, which is continuation of other minutes patients, the more may leis inside the european union, the better. okay. i mean, one way to treat your allies. ok when they are in, they have a paralysis, they can even make their own policy. and of course i with market works, washington advantage. you're great. i was there in paralysis. you know what a, what a bizarre way of looking at the world finish up or it's go. yeah, that's right. remember trump line was, oh my god, we're doing all this. we your, of the such ungrateful people, you know, they don't, you know, they don't realize all the wonderful things that we're doing for them. and so in the stabbing is in the back. and then when my grow suggested, well, maybe there sh

why should russia care? go ahead? well, it used to care more because again, the sin sublease the garbage on. there. russia has been aiming to integrate into what is defined as greater europe. now, the main conflict we had in europe is exactly because we never had any post cold war settlements as all, all by keeping nato inexpensive nato as demand secured the architecture of europe. we maintained this. there are some structures now for a long time, russell. it was all this economy was tied up with the west and the west could always tangle the possibility of better relations with the way if it only change its policy, made unilateral concessions. now, this past 7 years was definitely us going to far because now russia has instead begun to embrace the greater duration initiative in which is the greater part shipment up to the west. but also and things have changed for once. we can't really dangle the greater europe in front of the rush anymore because it's, it's, it's not really interested in this and more so let's offer

we heard from russia's 1st deputy prime minister. he was frank when he was saying that the reason for this move is the threat of more potential us sanctions. it will only take about a month to make sure that this ship happens, which has already become the number one financial headline at the form here and st . petersburg in a little earlier in the afternoon, as the russian president spokesperson dmitri past golf also way did on the international context of the decision. i didn't see the diesel orientation process is constant. it has now become obvious. and this process of b dollarization is taking place north country, but also in many other countries in the world that study being concerned regarding the reliability of the main currency. it's not a surprise that russian law makers really welcomed the move and said that it's a very important step towards further strengthening rushes, national financial in economic sovereign. besides this, this decision will really strengthen the role of the chinese currency in russia out of time when b

now, these statements, for many people who have been to russia are especially live in russia. these statements are just ridiculous and absurd, nothing to do with reality. at least an everyday life in russia and just for context. this kind of implies that the state department is traveling to russia as dangerous as travelling to countries like a gas stance, syrian libya literal, war zones. i think if i'd read this before coming here, i might stay for 15 years. dimitris, to be honest, it's scary, stuff and terror the terror threat. russia is not exactly the only country effected by that. is it? obviously not, of course, terrorism does happen in russia, but kind of rarely, i mean, yes, we saw the situation because over a month ago. but more often than not these stories about the headings, knife attack settings, killings. they're not coming most of the time from russia. they're coming from countries like the u. s. the u. k. in germany, france. yet somehow, none of these countries have been designated as a level for threats. apparently, according to the state department of the mythi

there is the civil war, are supported by russia, fomented by russia in these and ukraine, a country that russia promised to protect when ukraine gave beckett's nuclear weapons. in 994, russia promised to protect the territorial integrity of ukraine by a large russian policies are aggressive and unfriendly. and i think to have the western meetings, as i said, g 7, a 2 and you before the us rush and summers, i think the signal is very strong, that the americans are now looking for western unity. and i think they'll be able to come up with it as well. while the list of problem solving is long economic recovery after the pandemic unified action plan to protect the world's lands and notions to fight climate change. but his chancel, a miracle mentioned china, isn't even there. how substantial can the results be without a central world player like china? well, of course, the g 7 cannot save the birds to the g. 7 was originally started out as an informal gathering round a fireplace of western leaders to talk without media presence without diplomats without advisors. as a very small informal sett

support in russia? i don't think they are going to be ones that will strengthen russia, but those which want to containment, and that statement was made public. so if the organization and people who are trying to materialize to realize american ambitions in russia, how should we explain that? how should we understand that? i think we must be very cautious, but we will act within the framework of russian legislation. >> translator: i would just like to prolong that topic. especially as much as we hear this kind of rhetoric all the time, particularly with regard to the prisoners in russia, how did biden actually bring up the whole question -- one more question, of course, we have all been witnesses to the new stage in russia and u.s. relations with regard to diplomacy and all, and he was course about what he said about you, and we did approach the question of human rights and the people -- what people represent in russia. we have actually spoken about that on his initiative. secondly, as far as his rather

so it looks as though russia is coming out ahead with the sales, and it's going to be good for russia. it's going to be good for you are going to be good for everybody except america. like going to be good for america. america wants you to be dependent on america. that's why they say, don't buy from the russia, don't buy from the chinese to listen to us. no, i don't think. i mean, i don't know, but look, you know, the 1st phase of the pipeline is finished now. and it looks as of the 2nd phase is going to be finished soon. it looks as though that the europeans have decided will take the risk. you know, it could be anything you can any kind of risk. but from what i can gather is cleaner, is cheaper, and it's going to happen. green is very popular. now. i would, director of russian company called foss, agro fossa. grow is the only fertilizer company doesn't have heavy metals. it doesn't have cadmus. nature gave it to us, but it's a fantastic advantage. and it, it will help russia a lot to help the spot to and people realize more and more that this is a clean company and a clean country i

i don't expect russia to look like the united states. number 2, we will have the same type of democracy in iraq to tell you the truth. ah, me 200 years have not been able to establish a stable and confident relationship with the way. why not? you're asking when russia has not been able to establish stable relationships with the west? well, let me ask you, why is the west not established labor relations with russia? both such should make the effort. when we talk about equitable relations, it means respecting each other and respect means recognizing each other as equal partners. god forbid you enter into any contradictions with our american partners on the american continent that is considered the holy of holies. and yet allocating ships with missile munitions of 10 kilometers from where we are considered. okay, it doesn't equal approach. the want to reset it says big meals for which i rush as aggression against ukraine threatens our vision of a europe that is whole. busy free and at peace. one thing i'm counting with, with the prison prov

it is not friendly with russia. it says in the future, it would like to be, but it's taking no steps in that direction. and you know, that's just the unfortunate reality of the times. we live in britain's maximum security bell mos prison saw quite the crowd on tuesday. a number of m. p. 's joy and supporters of duty and songs for a protest outside the facility. that's whether we can ex co founder is currently being held. the politicians had that in a cross policy, less of the prison in which they cooled on belmont, she called out bow, much refusal to an hour meeting with a sons appropriate comes after the main witness in the us case against the songs reportedly admitted giving a false testimony in exchange for immunity. from prosecution, we heard from former leader of the opposition, jeremy corman was among those of the protest. i visited many prisons and many prisoners over all the years. i've been a member of parliament and is perfectly normal. the members of parliament granted with due process of facility. we now

as for russia, it is not listed. the countries that see the significant number of cyber attacks from their territory. that is one thing. from 2020, we have received 10 requests regarding cyber attacks . attacks on the u.s. infrastructure. as our colleague put it, these cyber attacks were launched from the russian territory. we received two requests this year. russia sent last year 45 requests to the relative agencies and this year, we send 35 requests. my response has been provided so far. -- no response has been provided so far. for the scale of responsibility and who should take them, it should be decided in the negotiations. we agreed we would start such consultations and we believe the cybersecurity area is extremely important in the world at large for the united states in particular as well as for the russian federation to the same extent. we know about cyber attacks against an organization in the united states and we know this company had to pay $5 million. some parts of the money is still missing. what to russ

and he's in russia. the competition is china, which america still doesn't have an answer for not been men yet. know whose 12 year reign israeli, as israeli prime minister could come to an end. the saving is parliament gathers to prove. and you government. the coalition consists of 8 factions, giving it a very narrow one. c majority reporting from television, his poor sleigh, the special patient of parliament started with the incoming way, the prime minister, nascar bennett struggling to get through his speech. every few moments he with interrupted with someone shouting a lie or traitor, and more than 10 members of parliament, ported out of the building by security officers. bennett is 30 getting a taste of the anger and betrayal that his booth, while connie on the right of the political spectrum are feeling. and this is not limited to just inside the parliament. was it a feeling that it goes to our israel? 60 percent of israeli societies on the weiss with the political spectrum and all of them. and parti

/russia relationship. no matter how well the summit went, unless vladimir putin stops that kind of activity, t that maligned activity. >> gloria, president biden is about to get on air force one, make the flight back to washington tonight. how do you think what we have seen over the last few hours, the summit, the putin news conference, now the biden news conference, how do you think that will play when the president gets back home and has all these other issues he's got to deal with. >> welcome, as biden said himself, he did what he came to do. he's not claiming some kind of huge moment here, he's taking a wait-and-see attitude. what i want to say, after watching biden for quite some time, this was pure biden. he came out and he said, there is no substitute for face-to-face meetings. he said it in the presser. he said, so there can be no misrepresentations. what he did was he did not question putin's motives. we know what he thinking of vladimir putin. we know what he thinks of his human rights policies.

nobody in russia is another. i want you to come on and i want to talk about russia and about me in a moment. but, but these rulings are your most important tool for correcting injustice and governments are throwing huge numbers of them in the been and my question is, if, if that doesn't work, and that's your major lever, your major mechanism for righting wrongs. what have you got left? i think it's not collected there. it's one of the mechanisms, of course it is extremely important. find i can always present a 3rd party intervention like i did. many of the cases that we already mention, but then it is ultimately, you know, with the states and also the committee of ministers of the council of europe that is monitoring execution of the judgment of the repeal code of human rights for me. the other tools at my disposal, bilateral discussions, but also teaching access to presents in order to really try to understand the situation that in some cases, extremely complex. but i agree with you that the, the fusion of the j

and russia are at a low point with russia-based hackers targeting two american businesses in just the last few months.espo if rsi under way at the swiss presiden will greet journalists here to cover one of the most hotly anticipated diplomatic meetings in years. the meeting is expected to last at least four to five hours. presidents putin and biden will both be greeted by the swiss president who will make remarks and then leave. the two leaders then set to be joined by their foreign ministers and interpreters. they'll meet for a while, and then summit will open up to more aides. both men are expected to hold separate news conferences. among the topics expected to be discussed today -- nuclear arms control, russian interference in u.s. elections, and cyberattacks. and the white house says the president's expected to raise the fate of two former u.s. marines being held in russian prisons, paul whelan and trevor reed. cbs news was first to obtain new audio of reed pleading for his freedom. >> i would say that i've spent my whole life in the service of my country, and i would appreciate i

russia. phil, stand by. we are waiting -- we're told president biden will be walking over to the microphones shortly. he will open with a statement, and i don't know if it will be a long or short statement. putin opened with a short statement and immediately started taking questions, and we are waiting for the president of the united states, jim scuitto. he will have the last word, as they say, because he wanted to have the last word. he did not want to have a joint news conference like former president trump had with putin. >> does he describe the disagreement in discussing a possible prisoner exchange? does he describe the makings of a positive repapport like putin did, conveying this is somebody i can work with? and three, does he pushback on the reams of disinformation putin did, and flipping the human rights issues on to the u.s.? how does biden push back against that? >> here he is. >>> there was no problem getting through those doors, was there? anyway, hello, everyone. well, i just fi

instead of russia. that has impacted some of our development but they did not have any critical effect. this has to do with the interest of american businesses. 200 people. the biggest delegation of people, an american delegation, was at st. petersburg economic forum. but due to that, some of the american companies have lost out. they have given up the business into the hands of their competitors in different countries. there is no practical reason but there are lawsuits. as for trade with the u.s., it is $28 billion, roughly. it increased by 16% in this first quarter. let's have a couple of questions. the lady here, please. thank you very much for affording me the opportunity to ask you a question. a few years ago, you met president biden and that was when he was vice president. what he said was that he looked you in the eye and he said that you didn't see a soul. you said that means we understand one another. tell me please, did you look him in the eye and what did you see? please tell me, president b

russia. but what the import is very important for the whole line of industrial production. thus, i think there is an interest to broaden out of the economic basis over time. but for the us, the trade was russia. scale wise is pretty unimportant. quality wise, it is important. never been a small world technology these days as it i'm a final. so what impact could improve moscow? washington relations, if it does happen after this, i've on the level of a dollar and the rubel, vermont, of course rushes repeatedly said, it doesn't. we wants to get rid of the dollar and it's reserves, etc. and they're going to touch on that. i think it's a bargain topic and the us dollar lives on the face of the world. and. and if major countries to play an important role, like russia turn away from the us dollar, the us dollar imperium, and the u. s will suffer significantly, and i think one of the reasons why this geneva summit takes place has to do with these choices most comm made. and not only moscow also, if y

he's jailed in russia right now. yesterday president biden said his death would be a tragedy if he died. it would affect negatively russia's relations with the world and the united states. russia does not want to address this topic. navalny is someone putin sees as a threat and as an internal matter. he doesn't want to discuss it. the white house says this will come up. this, of course, brings us to human rights generally speaking. there's been a crackdown on opposition voices in russia. this is something the white house has also said will come up today. there's a long list, wolf. then we have americans who are detained in russia. two of those folks, paul whelan and trevor reed. i can tell you that their families are watching this summit extremely closely. they're two former u.s. marines. could there be a prisoner swap? could the presidents lay down some conversations for the future to release these two americans detained in russia? and then the expulsion of diplomats. this is one topic that both countries do want to

is that china russia alliance made in america? ah, ah, cross talking russia china relations. i'm joined by my guess lynch and she yang in geneva. he is a professor of international history and politics at the graduate institute of international and development studies engineer. but in israel we have john gong, he is a professor at the university of international business in economics. and here in moscow were joined by alexander luke. and he is head of the department of international relations at the higher school of economics. or tell me in cross talk roles and in fact that means it can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciated when she and jenny, but let me go to you 1st year. i've been observing it for many, many years, the growing relationship closer, relationship that russia and china had. and it was, you know, a few years ago it was murmurings people met and mentioned in western media. and now all of a sudden they're in panic. mode is if this suddenly happened, well, this hasn't suddenly happened. it's been happening for a very long time. and 80 this. russia gav

and he's in russia. the competition is china, which america still doesn't have an answer for us . state department, along with some western diplomatic missions, has called on nigeria government to reverse its decision to ban twitter. it also condemned to threats to arrest users. logos outlawed the social network saying it is persistently used to undermine the country's existence. this comes after the platform deleted a post by the country's president, which warned national separatists of consequences unless they relent. but while twitter claims that a free and open internet is an essential human right, it appears to operate according to a different set of principles elsewhere. as our ego done, i've comments the free speech wing of the free speech boxing. this is how twitter executives love to define that platform. the self righteousness of this is only matched by how far the twitter executives are detached from reality. lately, the band, the syrian president over this tweet, many of those misbehaving tod

wow. russia and the west wild, russia, and nato were friends while they were friendly with each other. and here, let me put to remember cuba. because cuba, when the soviet union station nuclear weapons, there was a huge red line for the united states. russia was eventually remove those nuclear weapons, but somehow, when the united states and they to encroach on russia closer and closer and closer to russia's borders, somehow, they don't see that as being of concern to russia. vladimir putin says that a diesel union, as nato's expansion and his infrastructure getting close to his borders, is an extremely important issue for the security of all russians and for country. it has a practical significance for us. why is that? when poland romania became nato member states, they quickly agreed to americans, missile defense systems been stationed on their territory. but the launch pads used for those systems could also be used for offensive weaponry, which can reach central russia, including moscow within a very short timeframe. 15 minutes. imagine if ukraine was to become a nato member, it wo