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Dissent. he may well be a wanted person, or a not wanted person, if you will, back in moscow. an indication at least that there are those insiders who find what putin is doing distasteful, and getting out of the way. it is not possible to voice dissent and change the voice of the kremlin. thats the reality. you cannot work, it appears, as an insider against the kremlin. just leave and get out and run for safety. >> understood. one more thing. the russian stock exchange is scheduled to reopen for...

In that report, maria, wow. u.s. imports from russia in 2019 almost $23 billion. minerals, iron and steel, fertilizer, precious metals, all on our screen right there. here is my query. moscows stock market has been closed for two weeks and i dont know when it reopens. i dont know if it reopens. i dont know what the answer is here. but i do remember 20 years ago when the ruble collapsed and had a big effect on us for several months. have you been able to gauge what the impact of that could be on ...

Was 50%. so, one, its a very, very big deal and two, peoples experience tells them what the president is saying doesnt quite add up. >> bret: jeff, we dont know how long this is going to last. clearly this is having a devastating effect on the russian economy. the "new york times" writes it this way facing economic calamity putin talks of nationalizing western businesses. particular concern post soviet integration into the world, economy like mcdonalds, ikea, mr. putin told officials in the tele...

Foreign reserves are frozen. thats around $315 billion. now that is why russia says it can only repay creditors in rubles. that is the local currency, and its lost around half of its value against the dollar this year. that sort of volatility doesnt just make the ruble less attractive for investors. using it to repay this debt would be considered a default, and heres why. moscow is due to pay $117 million in interest payments on dollar denominations, government bonds wednesday. now although russ...

International legal apparatus, the international court of justice, the european court. and we are -- at one point we were saying were collecting evidence. now the evidence is there before our eyes every day in terms of these attacks on hospitals and civilian targets. so i do believe that in addition to doing everything we can to punish russias economy -- and we saw the ruble just totally collapse the other day, and doing everything we can to provide weapons. we also need to make clear that we wi...

Scheduled to meet virtually with the u.s. senator. we will be speaking with the senator tim kaine. well bring you more on that as it develops. while the russians have made some progress in southern ukraine, notably capturing the city of kherson, the capital of kyiv is still standing and in ukrainian control. in russia the kremlin has been cracking down on foreign media. vladimir putin signed a new law yesterday that could imprison reporters for up to 15 years for veering from the government-appr...

>> all western businesses are shutting down. everyone who can is leaving. well be left isolated. >> reporter: back in the ussr, happier times. when mcdonalds opened up here. it felt then as if russia was getting an appetite for good relations with the west. but it feels now that thats all gone. and instead, russias increasingly isolated. international brands are vanivanishing from moscows shog centers. but russians have less money to spend here anyway. sanctions have caused the value of the rubl...

That the russians are inflicting. i think one of the surprise -- i mean, there have been a number of surprises, i think, in the conflict. one is that the russian forces have not proven more effective, that they have been, in many cases, surprisingly inept. and also, i think the other surprise is that the west has been so resolute and this was not necessarily something we could have predicted, but the fact that the west has united in such strong sanctions, which are punishing the russian economy,...

Peskov acknowledged it and dismissed the images as people who cannot cope with their emotions. it comes as moscow stock exchange has been closed for three weeks. and most western companies have completely stopped doing business in the country. all of this is a result of with withering sanctions which took effect in the shortest timeframe we have seen sanctions happen in world history. out front now, the former finance ministry of ukraine and, natalie, i really appreciate your time and perspectiv...

He has tanks burden out everywhere, stuck in the mud. lots of his young soldiers are being killed. its not going as planned on the military front. on the financial front he never thought we would ever be able to agree with germany and other countries, these crippling sanctions. all of a sudden the ruble has dropped 40%. the stock market is down 90%. its been a disaster for him. brian: thats part one of my two-part interview. he takes us inside vladimir putins inner circle. plus you can watch "wh...