All right, Alexander, let's talk about Putin's trip to India, which I think is taking place

in December.

I don't know, has a date been announced?

The Russian media are saying that it'll be the third and fourth of December, but this

has not been officially confirmed.

So the Trump White House has been going on and on about how India is moving away from

Russia and how India is going to stop purchasing Russian oil, and they're going to get India

on side. And here you have Putin, who is going to be making a big trip to India to meet

with his close friend Modi and his close ally in India. And my understanding of things is that

there are going to be some very big deals signed, especially in the military space. But I imagine

definitely energy is going to be discussed

and oil is going to be discussed. Well, quite right. I mean, I should say there's been lots of

articles which have been clearly planted in the financial media, Bloomberg, other places, Reuters, talking about how India is reducing

imports of oil from Russia. It probably is, but the Russian ambassador to India, it's an interesting

man, by the way, anyway, we'll talk about him some other time. But anyway, he's saying that

India is continuing to buy oil from Russia

and that Russia remains India's major supplier of oil

and will continue to be so going into the future.

And the Russian energy minister, Alexander Novak, has said that Russian oil production

remained stable and that he too expects that the Indian-Russian oil trade will continue.

And the report speak of Russian tankers, or at least not Russian tankers, but tankers

with Russian oil still steaming towards India.

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