Good afternoon and welcome to the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where you are in the know. You can find the club on the can you just give us insight into what it was like to be a dissident input and led russia and how that kind of crackdown on Civil Liberties and participation intensified . Was it gradualtalk to us about how that happened . Its funny , eight months ago i was here in South Pacific and i traveled across the country promoting my previous bookk. Which well talk about also. Everybody wanted to ask me about ibm and the blue. [laughter] so now i have a new book. And i dont think its inescapable. But somehow its the two are connected because a lot of russian stories are connected to cyber security, to, its not ai but interference using new technology. Now, regarding the situation in russia, its, its also quite extraordinary moment. I just arrived here today and just in the square board and while im waiting for of course, i looked at the news from moscow, from alex