Hello, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine and we're the presenters of British Scandal.

People do strange things, don't they, Alice?

I don't like the tone of your voice, what do you mean?

On our didn't mean you, I'm at the entire British public who in 2022

followed a live stream of a lettuce with a wig on.

Entirely normal behaviour.

There's more normal than what was going on inside Downing Street.

For this series on British Scandal we're taking you inside number 10,

covering the shocking and very short premiership of Liz Truss.

Listen to British Scandal wherever you get your podcasts.

This is CBSI in the world speaking with

Ekaterina Zolotova of geopolitical futures.

She's in Moscow, a most recent essay about Turkey.

The problems it has, inflation and trade routes,

alternative trade routes that are not including Turkey.

Trade routes for Russia, trade routes for Kazakhstan,

trade routes for the region.

Remember, when oil or gas or ships pass through Turkish territory,

Turkey earns money.

And if those ships and oil and gas and trade have found other routes,

such as railroad route from Moscow to the Indian Ocean to Iran,

or bypassing the Black Sea entirely by using the Baltic or the Far East to ship to India and China,

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