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listening. Terms apply. This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchelor.ensions rise among Russia's elite, writes the New York Times, as economic growth slows.

Going to be slower, perhaps.

I welcome Michael Bernstein of the Hoover Institution, my guide on the sanctions regime directed against the Russian Federation since its legal invasion of Ukraine.

Now, years later, the price of oil, we're back to energy costs.

Michael, a very good evening to you.

You tell me there's a very important meeting where the price of oil will be discussed.

How so?

Good evening to you.

Good evening to you.

Tomorrow is the big meeting, online meeting, by OPEC plus,

which means the Saudis and all major oil exporters, excluding, of course, the United States

and the United States allies. And they will decide whether the quotas restrictions on oil

production that were enforced for about a couple of years,

that whether they will be extended to 2025.

They were supposed to make this decision starting December 1st, postponed to 2025,

the lifting restrictions, and they were supposed to have this meeting consanda in

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