Thank you.
Thank you again, Mr. Browder, for coming back. I was new on the committee when you were here previously. I found the story to be horrendous, and it has never left me, even through the Ukraine situation. The former president and the former government were really Putin cronies. They were put in place and they looked after themselves first.
It is my understanding that Putin's wealth—I heard this somewhere—was in the neighbourhood of $160 billion. I don't think that as the president of Russia your paycheques would get you to that particular spot, to anyone who knows, but if the regular Russian people don't know that, if the media can't put that out and if it's not out there, they would wonder why they themselves average about $12,000 a year. It would take a long time to get to $160 billion.
Everything you told us when you were here the last time, I more than believe wholeheartedly, especially since what has happened in Crimea, in Ukraine, and I was a little different on it from even what our government did at the very beginning, or the European government or the United States. When this first happened, when the Ukrainian president left and went back to Russia, I would have put sanctions on everyone, all the oligarchs, everyone in Ukraine and in Russia.
One of my staffers was in Europe this past Christmas. I don't know exactly which resort area it was, but over half the houses, the big mansions and everything, were owned by Russians. Most of the Russian and Ukrainian top people live outside; they just take the money from there and then out.
So I do believe in sanctions, and I know that you've explained sanctions, but do you think enough have been put in place already?