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the Bloomberg. And joining me now is Ken Molis,

CEO Moloten Company. Thank you so much for joining us, Ken.

It's now great to be here.

So you've been on a world tour. You just came back from Russia where you had a

panel with Putin. What was the big takeaway? Well it was interesting you know

it's hard to get good information and I you do these things because my job is to get as much

information about the global economy as you can.

So there was a lot of takeaways about it, just getting up to speed on the Moscow economy and

how the sanctions are affecting and what they're doing.

So I thought it was good to put that information in the back of your mind and keep it in mind

as your advised companies.

Are they the next place for you to be doing the next big deal?

No, no.

Russia is long, I think it's a while in the future.

But, look, it's a long life. I've been doing this 40 years and you know

friends last long time loyalties you get to know people and you in look it's a long time

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