He wanted to keep defense expenditure down. We're now all going to 5%. So things are not going his way economically. We're looking at interest rates and inflation, you know, in the teens. We're looking at an economy which is zero growth this year. We're looking at an economy which doesn't have any more reserves. We're looking at an economy which has to pay an excessive amount of what we call Putin's maternity package. (25:56–26:00)
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Asserts Russia's economy is experiencing zero growth this year.
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