Introduction

Two friends of the show, Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman, are speaking to us from Russia. They attended a conference of economists speaking about the economic situation in Russia. I'm going to pick their brains about the effects of Western sanctions,. The process of Eurasian integration, de-dollarization has really picked up momentum over the past several weeks. Of course the last year of the war in Ukraine and we're going to discuss the geopolitics of that conflict.