HEADLINE: State of the Economy and Public Mood in Wartime Russia GUEST NAME: Anatol Lieven SUMMARY: John Batchelor speaks with Anatol Lieven reporting from Russia that life in Moscow and St. Petersburg continues normally, without a sense of war dread. How
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 1:00.6 | This is John Batchel. Colleague, Anatole Levin, is in Russia, moving between Sochi and the Black Sea Basin, |
| 1:10.5 | Moscow and St. Petersburg, |
| 1:14.2 | measuring the state of the economy, the state of the public mood, the culture in wartime, |
| 1:20.4 | and surprisingly finding no sense of alarm, more, no sense of dread, or that there's a war going on, and yet the economy. |
| 1:31.6 | Serious concerns about the economy going forward. Here's Antel Levin to explain. Also, about the |
| 1:38.1 | concern about the war has to do with this talk of Tamahawk missiles. Much more of this |
| 1:44.0 | tonight. |
| 1:45.1 | Anatole-Leban, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, traveling in Russia. |
| 1:50.2 | There is no great alarm here yet, at least not in Moscow and Petersburg, where life has continued |
| 1:59.2 | very much as normal. You really don't feel, you don't feel that the war is |
| 2:05.0 | going on at all. Now, of course, there are economic worries. And precisely because if on top of the |
| 2:13.7 | damage done by the Ukrainians, the West or the Europeans were to oppose what would |
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