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To ask you this. do you believe that vladimir putin has just taken the biggest political gamble of his life? because whatever happens next in ukraine, what we can say for sure is that it is deeply uncertain and it could carry a very high cost for russia. yes, putin is taking enormous risks. he... well, i believe... i still believe he miscalculated. he overestimated his ability to be lucky and to get out of any trouble situation without being held responsible for it. so, i believe that, actually, as we say in russia, putin is trying to eat a piece of cake that's too large for his mouth. i belie...

But now, the world is not able to pay that amount of attention. and the timing of alexei navalny�*s new trial is anything but random. it's of course not. it was very carefully selected so that the first trial was during... the first day in court was during the first problems on the ukrainian border, and then, the next day, during the start of military operation, and so on and so on. so, putin, of course, makes it very efficient, like, to make the trial about...against, like, the world political prisoner number one nonexistent in the western media. yeah, 0k. you and navalny described putin as...

Pumping, like, hundreds of billions of dollars, like putin and his friends, to the west. london being the most important destination for the money stolen from russian taxpayers, and that's somethings that always made and still makes him vulnerable. but i come back to the question, because i understand what you are saying, but the fact is that the london property and financial markets are now so used to russian money that there is a real danger they will suffer great pain if they withdraw from it. same with the international energy market. same with the luxury goods market in countries like ita...

Of russian population. this unfortunately happened, and all celebrities were supporting putin and there were no protest rallies, and so on and so on and so on. and putin liked it, and maybe that was his expectation, that he will be able to do it again. he miscalculated. he was very wrong. and public opinion in russia is split. according to the most trustworthy polls, the independent levada polls, it's like 45 pro and 40% contra, which is bad news for putin, which never happened. he used to enjoy like 70 or 80% of popular support. so now the country's split. we have to work hard also to split p...

During the last year for these massive personal sanctions against putin's money. and these sanctions unfortunately came too late. well, we'll talk sanctions injust a moment. just clarify for me, if you would, whether you believe that putin's message, which we saw in that extraordinary address to his national security council — and we've heard in his writings as well — that ukraine is in essence a fake nation, that it really has no legitimacy, that it is run by a puppet regime which he now seems to be saying is neo—nazi in its politics, and that it is a fundamental threat to russia and ru...