The DSR Daily Brief for May 25, 2023: DeSantis' Twitter Announcement Plagued with Technical Issues, Turkey's Upcoming Runoff

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The two hundred ninety-sixth episode of the DSR Daily Brief Stories Cited in the Episode: Exclusive: From Russia with gold - UAE cashes in as sanctions bite Turkish voters weigh final decision on next president, visions for future Wagner chief warns of revolution and says 20,000 fighters killed in Bakhmut DeSantis’s Big Moment Goes Awry With a Twitter Meltdown Democrats’ worry grows over White House approach to debt talks Embattled Macron struggles to reconnect with France House that inspired 'The Conjuring' offers camping experiences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.2	It's May 25, 2023, and this is your DSR Daily Brief.
0:57.2	I'm Chris Cotnor, our top stories from international outlets this morning.
1:02.0	Reuters has an exclusive in which they report that the United Arab Emirates has become a key trade hub for Russian gold since Western sanctions over Ukraine,
1:12.0	cut Russia's more traditional export routes, Russian customs records show.
1:17.6	The records which contain details of nearly 1,000 gold shipments in the year since the Ukraine war started,
1:24.2	show the Gulf State imported 75.7 tons of Russian gold, worth $4.3 billion, up from just 1.3 tons during 2021.
1:35.6	China and Turkey were the next biggest destinations, importing about 20 tons each between February 24th, 2022 and March 3rd, 2023.
1:47.6	With the UAE, the three countries accounted for 99.8% of the Russian gold exports in the customs data for this period.
1:56.0	In the days after the Ukraine conflict started, many multinational banks, logistics providers, and precious metal refiners stopped handling Russian gold,
2:06.6	which had typically been shipped to London, a gold trading and storage hub.
2:12.0	The export records show, however, that Russian gold producers quickly found new markets in countries that had not imposed sanctions on Moscow,
2:20.8	such as the UAE, Turkey, and China.
2:24.4	According to reporting from the AP, two opposing visions for Turkey's future are on the ballot when voters returned to the post Sunday for a runoff presidential election
2:34.8	that will decide between an increasingly authoritarian incumbent and a challenger who has pledged to restore democracy.
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