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Hello, I'm Edward McBride, the Finance Editor.

This week on Money Talks.

Is it a good thing for the public to know everything about their leader's financial affairs?

We dive deep into the murky world of tax transparency with our economics correspondent Sumaya Keynes.

Personally, the idea of having a really healthy well-informed debate about the tax system

and the income distribution is extremely attractive to me. I would love to have that kind of debate.

But first we're going to Russia.

The Arctic air has made its mark on Moscow, a frigid city doused in snow and ice.

We're used to thinking of the Russian economy

as lurching constantly from crisis to crisis.

When oil prices came crashing down at the end of 2014,

it seemed like Russia was on the brink

of an economic catastrophe.

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