For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, ourwilland our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny. Translation you may be surprised, but a few days i before mr navalny died, some colleagues of mine told me there was an idea to exchange him for certain people in prison in the west. You can believe it or not. I said, i agree, even before he had finished talking. But what happened, happened. Election results on russian tv, not a hold your breath moment. The winner, by a mile and a half, Vladimir Putin. What an incredible level of support and unity around the figure of putin, he says. And a powerful signal to the west. But in this race, Vladimir Putin was, from the start, unbeatable. There were other candidates. But no serious ch
As the bbc s russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports, mr putin also mentioned his late critic, Alexei Navalny, by name. For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, ourwilland our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny. Translation you may be surprised, but a few days i before mr navalny died, some colleagues of mine told me there was an idea to exchange him for certain people in prison in the west. You can believe it or not. I said, i agree, even before he had finished talking. But what happened happened. Election results on russian tv, not a hold your breath moment. The winner, by a mile and a half, Vladimir Putin. What an incredible level of support and unity around the figure of putin, he says. And a powerful signal to the w
Im going to be discussing that with these two there they are an Eastern European economist who thinks selling the assets might mean less money for ukraine in the long run and estonias Foreign Minister tells me taxpayers, they shouldnt have to foot the bill for the aggression of his next door neighbour, russia. Plus, what about the damage inside ukraine . One of president zelensky s top economic advisers tells me about the struggle to keep financing the fighting and why getting millions of ukrainians back from abroad would be crucial for the countrys future. Wherever yourejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. You know, russias invasion of ukraine is now into its third year, costing Tens Of Thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Its huge impact has been felt in economies all around the world. Its had consequences for globaltrade, energy and food prices and, most of all, in ukraine itself. So, can the assets the west has frozen and
department shows that 236,000 fi refox newjobs were created in the us in march a very healthy figure, but showing a continued decline in the pace of newjob creation. it suggests that the economy is slowing down and the question on everyone s minds is what this data will mean to the us federal reserve when it makes its next decision about the interest rate in the us. here s our north america business correspondent, samira hussain. this reflects other data from the us, which suggests that perhaps the post pandemic crunch is coming to an end. we kind of knew that this was going to be reflected in the march jobs report. a, to be reflected in the march “obs reort, , ., ., to be reflected in the march “obs reort. , ., ., , ., report. a slowdown in terms of hirin: report. a slowdown in terms of hiring based report. a slowdown in terms of hiring based on report. a slowdown in terms of hiring based on the report. a slowdown in terms of hiring based on the data - report