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Now on bbc news, it is hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i am stephen sakur. economies across the industrialised world are feeling the strain of soaring fossil fuel energy costs. but the bad news for energy consumers represents a potential bonanza for the biggest producers. step forward gas rich russia. ideally placed to exert growing influence in your apartment energy market. my your apartment energy market. my guess is sergei ryabkov, russia's deputy minister of foreign affairs. given moscow scope of an increasingly tense relations with the west, will energy deepen the mistrust?

Well, my guest is sergei ryabkov, russia's deputy minister of foreign affairs. given moscow's increasingly tense relations with the west, will energy deepen the mistrust? minister sergei ryabkov in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. minister, we must start with the soaring cost of fossil fuel energy, particularly natural gas. russia possesses vast quantities of natural gas. it supplies 40% of the natural

Good press out of this meeting regardless of what happens. he tweeted this. heading to helsinki, finland. he is of course there now. looking forward to meeting with president putin tomorrow. unfortunately, no matter how well i was doing, if those given moscow for retribution of all the sins and evils committed by russia over the years, i would return to criticism that it wasn't good enough that i should have gone st. petersburg in addition. are there things -- go ahead. >> what do you expect? you go and see an adversary. interestingly enough, very few people talk about the propaganda effort in...