against the dollar in early trading. it s recovered most of those losses during today s trading session but investors remain nervous. safe haven assests like the gold have risen. gold was up around 0.6% a short while ago with brent crude also rising throughout the day. let s speak now to sergey vakulenko, nonresident scholar at the carnegie russia eurasia center. welcome, great to have you on the programme. what has been the noticeable impact so far on the russian economy since the events of saturday? there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, ora there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, or a weekend, there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, ora weekend, it there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, or a weekend, it mutiny that was over in about 2k hours. even through the regions, yes, there was a disturbance on the road, yes, a stray missile hit a fuel depot, but other than that there was very little disturbance to civilian life and all that is over and mutinous troops are supposedl
to moscow as well. there s increased security in moscow with what s being called anti terror measures. the m4 motorway which links the russian capital with cities in south such as rostov is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. the kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down. and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. here s mr putin s television address to the russian nation. translation: russia is engaged in a fight for its future. the entire military information might have the worst has been sent against us. we are fighting for our independence. we are fighting for our right to remain russia. a country with 1000 years of history. today, the fate of our people is being decided. we need the consolidation of all forces. everything has to be discarded that weakens us. anything that can be used and is being used to subvert us
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jonathan charles is back with us geopolitical insight advisor, specialising in russia and the countries around it and a former bbc correspondent in moscow and ukraine markets in moscow and ukraine quick to react and no surprise markets quick to react and no surprise that the rouble has sunk. it surprise that the rouble has sunk. . , , ., ., sunk. it hasn t been doing that well for several sunk. it hasn t been doing that well for several weeks - sunk. it hasn t been doing that well for several weeks and - well for several weeks and months and it was inevitable with uncertainty and that is what we have with russia now, it has exacerbated a trend and we have seen that fall in the rouble. untilwe we have seen that fall in the rouble. until we know what is going to happen, can vladimir putin reassert that sense of strongman rule which at least is certainty, it may not be very nice, but at least it is certainty, then there will be questions about the economy, about the roub