All right, Alexander. Let's revisit the Russian economy because the Russian economy is booming, I guess you could say. The European Union, they ran their forecasts, and they say the Russian economy will grow at around 2.5%, I think they said. We've heard over 3% from, I think mostly from, from Russian sources.

And Putin was speaking the other day at a cultural event in St. Petersburg. And he said for November, Russia's looking at 5.5% growth.

And I have to say, Putin was very confident, very relaxed, very confident about the Russian economy.

So, you know, you've been following the Russian economy very closely. We've been talking about the

Russian economy, it seems, for years. And I just want to, I just want to quickly say that when

all of this started, the conflict, the SMO, all the analysts were saying that the Russian

economy will collapse.

And that was the aim.

And you were saying and we were saying, and people can go back and see those shows from

January, February, March, that no, the Russian economy is not going to collapse.

It's much stronger than people realize.

But I think even we're surprised.

Yes.

As how resilient the economy, the Russian economy has been.

Yes, I think people...

Maybe even Putin's surprise.

Maybe even Putin surprised.

Sorry.

Well, he has acknowledged as much.

But, you know, talking about pessimistic forecasts, I mean, at the start of this year,

the European Union, the European Commission, was predicting a 1% contraction in the economy,

the Russian economy this year.

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