"It will be much more sensible for the business community together with the government to think about creating favorable conditions for investing Russian resources, including those placed in the West, into the Russian economy," Putin said.
This then would be a great time to ask why Russia sent 49 tonnes of gold to the US last week. Incidently, once again last night the dollar was being worked lower and for the second night in a row, gold, which was looking to go llower, I thought, rose very atypically doing the whole night. Something's happening here. The hand is almost visible.