Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not a specialist on the Russian economy, but any time you lose $70 billion in a quarter, it's not a good thing.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, it's essentially.... This is the same propaganda that has been there since Soviet times. I would just direct the committee's attention to today's National Post and to an open letter of Ukrainian Jews to Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin. I think it will explain e

Foreign Affairs committee  I think it's a mistake to try to link our aid to the IMF package. The IMF package is a stabilization fund; it goes to the budget. It's used by the government to pay pensions, wage arrears, Gazprom arrears—although I don't know whether we're going to pay those or not, or maybe set

Foreign Affairs committee  I have a list of five points that I didn't mention, because I was waiting for questions and didn't want to run over. I also had a meeting today at Foreign Affairs at which we discussed that issue as well.

Foreign Affairs committee  It's in the materials I submitted.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll also give Lada a chance to respond, I think. The situation in Ukraine is very tense, whether you're in Kiev or in Donetsk. Donetsk gets a little hotter on the weekends. One of the first things the governor did was deal with the security situation. We basically had no gove

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me. My background is that for the last 23 years I've lived and worked in Kiev. I'm currently a managing partner of an international law firm but I spent 10 years as an adviser to the Ukrainian government, twice as

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, that's correct.