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#Ukraine: #Russia: The middlemen prosper in the sanctions trade. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#Ukraine: #Russia: The middlemen prosper in the sanctions trade. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-microchips-migrate-from-china-to-russia-7ad9d6f4?mod=hp_featst_pos4

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.4

Here's John Bachelorette.

0:11.1

Sanctions, since the beginning of this war now a year plus, Russia has been under severe

0:17.1

sanctions for its prize, its oil, its natural gas, but also its refined products.

0:24.4

In these last days, the revenue coming to the Russian state to continue the war is plunging

0:30.4

the headline, for example most recently, Russia's oil and gas revenue plunged 40% in January

0:37.8

as Western sanctions take a toll.

0:40.6

Our expectation, said an expert, is that this oil and gas revenue decline will be steeper

0:46.0

in the next months to come.

0:47.7

Yes, but ask yourself, who's making money?

0:52.0

The state in Moscow is not making money, but someone is in between the Russian oil producing

0:59.7

and the purchasing of Russian oil throughout the Indo-Pacific.

1:03.3

Michael Berenstopp of the Hoover Institution is here to explain how opportunity knocks

1:09.9

and a whole lot of people answered in Russian oil shipments.

1:14.3

Michael, a very good evening to you.

1:16.1

What fleet?

1:17.1

Where?

1:18.1

Who's making money?

1:19.5

Good evening to you.

1:21.1

And now 600 tankers and oil vessels around the world are unaccounted for no one knows who owns

1:27.8

them.

1:28.8

I'll transport Russian oil to the middle men and traders who sell it.

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