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policy, veb does not do any ordinary banking business. therefore, it is so remarkable that jared kushner met with the head of veb. joining me now, yahoo! news nance anchor bianna golodryga and elias grohl. elias, let me start with you. you wrote a really good piece about this bank. this bank is sort of a kind of a functionally a part of the government projecting financial power for the kind of strategic interests of the russian government. that s exactly right. it s used to advance the foreign policy agenda of the kremlin. it s used to pump money into pet projects. it s used to support kremlin-friendly oligarchs. as you mentioned, it s been a key tool in the kremlin s efforts to bind ukraine more closely to russia and to try to keep it out of the west s sphere of influence if you will. there s a sort of amazing story you tell in the piece about basically propping up some steel factories in ukraine, sort
no, this had more to do with policy. why on earth would this bank have anything to do with regards to the syrian crisis, and why on earth would it be such a pressing issue that they had to discuss it right then and there? syria has been unraveling for years. again, elias, the question here again, if there s nothing here underlying this, this is just a meeting about bringing peace to syria or a back channel or about how great kushner properties are, you know, prudentially, the choice to take the meeting itself is strange given the environment under which it was taken. exactly. and gorkov is not somebody who is seen as somebody who is extremely close to the kremlin. if you were looking for a trusted intermediary with the kremlin or the putin administration, you would probably look for somebody who was closer to the regime. gorkov is certainly an insider, but he s by no means somebody who is in the very inner circle of power. but don t forget who is the
finance anchor bianna golodryga and elias grohl. elias, let me start with you. you wrote a really good piece about this bank. this bank is sort of a kind of a functionally a part of the government projecting financial power for the kind of strategic interests of the russian government. that s exactly right. it s used to advance the foreign policy agenda of the kremlin. it s used to pump money into pet projects. it s used to support kremlin-friendly oligarchs. as you mentioned, it s been a key tool in the kremlin s efforts to bind ukraine more closely to russia and to try to keep it out of the west s sphere of influence if you will. there s a sort of amazing story you tell in the piece about basically propping up some steel factories in ukraine, sort of against economic interests but just to keep people employed as a sort of propaganda victory that then had to be bailed out. exactly.