Mr. Chair, thank you very much.
Thank you, all, for being here.
You're talking to politicians. Politicians love the short game, love tactics and strategies that are focused on a two- to four-year horizon. You spoke of the three- to 10-year horizon.
Dr. Aslund, on the Russian economy, what are the prospects of a prosperous, peaceful, stable Russia without a rapprochement either to Europe and/or to the other entity we haven't discussed this afternoon, which is China?
I'm wondering if you could paint your vision of the long game for the committee. Where is this going to go, assuming that we are with you on what you've said on a short-term time horizon and tactics to make this more expensive to the Russians?