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Putin in europe, and clearly putin disagreed with that. the second is putins complete mismanagement of covid. at one point, had officials, thousand people died in a day, some estimate over the course of a year, russia lost a million people even if they werent all classified as covid deaths, clearly had a tremendous impact, and third is just that he has been increasingly isolated. weve seen that he has lost or gotten rid of any adviser that might have challenged him in any way and over the course...

We of course feared he would push further into the east, that he would try to take a city like mauriopl in order to create a lands bridge to crimea, but this kind of all out assault on the entire country honestly wasnt something we believed at that time would happen. but in terms of what changed, i do believe were probably looking at three things. one of them is what happened in belarus, the sustained protests, how close belarus came to actually getting rid of l lukashenko, a dictator whos the o...

Getting rid of lukashenko this year who was the only one in power longer than putin in europe and clearly, putin responded very aggressively to that. the second is putins complete mismanagement of covid. at one point, we had officials from russia couple days ago, some estimate over the course of a year russia lost a million people even if they werent all classified as covid deaths but clearly that had a tremendous impact. and third is just that he has been increasingly isolated. weve seen that h...

Foreign minister there. what are you expecting? >> we are not expecting to hear from anything we havent heard before. on the key question you mention if and how china will help russia minimize the impact of severe western sanctions. we have seen some indications in the past few days. the answer is it depends. for chinese companies or institutions with large exposure to the western market it seems to be at least willing to consider compliance with western sanctions. br other chinese entities with...

French president mock ron and russian president putin discussed evacuations and safety of ukraine nuclear power plant on a phone call sunday. according to to a read rout from the kremlin. french president expressed concern about the safety of the nuclear power plant. after russian forces attacked and took control of it last week. the head of the international atomic energy agency says russian forces have now switched off mobile net works and the internet at the nuclear power plant. meaning offic...