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Thank you very much for your support. Welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothkoff. Glad to be back, missed you yesterday.

Joined by Chris Cottonore, how you doing Chris? Doing fantastic.

Thanks.

Fantastic and Riley Fessler.

How are you, Riley?

Not as fantastic as Chris.

Well, who is really?

Nobody is as fantastic as Chris.

But why don't you kick it off today, Riley?

Maybe it'll get you going a little.

Well, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated for his fifth term as president of Russia in a grand ceremony

replete with religious overtones where he reiterated his portrayal of the invasion of Ukraine as a divinely sanctioned part of Russia's history.

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