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CVS, I and the world. I'm John Bachelor to Moscow

to Ekaterines of Lautova for geopolitical futures and analysts, a subscription site I recommend.

We turn to the Russian budget and the year ahead and the war economy, but not before I learned some things about how Moscow has

responded so far in these hours since the attack and the casualty rate is still uncertain there are many severely wounded.

The pursuit of the perpetrators continues.

I remind myself whenever we come to instances of tragedy like this, what I was taught

very early in the Afghanistan War of 2001, 2002, by a senior officer. In war, the first three reports are wrong. So what we know now is there

are four suspects in custody that we've seen. They're said to be more. However, the victims and I welcome a Katerina to tell me not about the victims but about the site that was attacked.

Crocus City. It looked like a very large place for movies or concerts.

A Katarina, a very good day to you.

Crocus City, is it in the heart of the city or in the suburbs and what is it used for? Good evening to you.

Good evening and Crockus city hits the very big place. It is situated not in the center of Moscow.

It was constructed not so long time ago, by the way,

and it was constructed in the west of Moscow.

To tell the truth, it's by the the paper it's not Moscow itself. It's already the city that is called

Krasnagorsk so it's Moscow region but the distance between the Moscow ring circle it's the circle for the cars. the

circle for the cars and the transport that is surrounded Moscow and

these Crocos City Hall. It's, I don't know, about like 100

meters or more. So this was and it still is a very big place where

several shops and several expos centers are situated.

One of these places was also the concert city hall.

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