All right, Alexander, let's talk about the SCO meeting that wrapped up in Kazakhstan.

Belarus is a full member.

This is big, very big for Belarus, a big deal for Lukashenko and for the people of Belarus.

Putin was at this event, of course, as was Xi Jinping.

Interestingly enough, Modi did not attend. I believe Jaisankar, the foreign minister,

was at the event. I don't know if you see any meaning in that. What are your thoughts of the SCO? And then maybe we can talk a bit

about what Putin said to the media on a lot of topics, especially Project Ukraine and

getting to some sort of ceasefire and stuff like that. So SEO in Kazakhstan.

Well, indeed, Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It's the sort of big umbrella body that

brings together all the various institutions that make up basically what you might call Eurasia.

So there's the collective security Security Treaty Organisation, which is an alliance of former Soviet states, of which Russia is at the call.

There is the Eurasian Economic Union, which is an economic alliance of former Soviet states with Russia at the call.

There is the bricks, which must never forget.

And then there is the SEO.

So the SEO, as I said, sort of closes the loop.

It brings them all together.

It's both a political organization. It has some kind of military security aspect. But it enables people who are not, for example, members of the

Bricks, like Erdogan of Turkey to attend and participate very actively and fully because Turkey is a member of the

SEO, I believe. And at the same time, you can sense that all of these various pieces, all of these

things are gradually slotting into place. All of these leaders meet. They talk

to things together with each other and things begin to move and work their way out.

Speaking of Erdogan, Putin, by the way, had a very, very interesting meeting with Erdogan.

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