To Michael Savage June 21st, Sunday

Doc,

At Int'l Economic Summit in St. Petersburg members discussed how to work with Russia during sanctions for mutual benefit. Most of investors in RF's economy were from Asian countries, which shows Russia's course to East. Despite not so good relashonship with US and EU, there were members of some big companies from the West, which worked with Russia for decades, such as Total, Shell, Metro, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), etc. 
It's at 1tv.ru/news/economic/286250.
Political scientists paid attention to behavior of the West around the forum. Just a few days before its start, right when many investors were flocking to Russia from around the world, they extended the sanctions. A day before, Brussels froze the assets of RF's diplomatic missions (then released them after retaliatory language from MID.ru, in order to send a massage that economic climate in Russia is not stable and/or unpredictable. But, despite the "efforts" of the West to spoil it, atmosphere in the forum was cool, relaxed, professional and productive. Reporter Mikhail Akinchenko tells the story from surrounding and from behind the scenes. (it's more than 10 min. long, you should watch it)
To the underlying "threat" by the West that sent the massage which could be interpreted like "if you want to work with Russia, you might not make money, but earn bunch of troubles," members were not intimidated, but, at the contrary, worked out deals with considering already existing conditions.
Despite all forces trying to bring RF to economic breaking point, it survived, got its balance back and coming out of difficulties with reliable inner strength. Ruble is stable again, non-raw material export grew for 17% in the first quarter of 2015. Russian Fund for Direct Investments worked and continue to work with successful growth. Russia is open for long time partnerships with mutual interests. He also thanked those who didn't loose their faith and continued to invest throughout this period.
Businessmen were happy to hear that tariffs will stay unchanged for next 4 years. More than ever were businessmen from China, among them Jack Yun Ma who is the richest man in Asia. He was a modest teacher of English language until the end of 90's. He's now worth about $30 Billion.

[mw Considering the fact that IMF takes BRIKS as a direct competition, the West badmouthed those Asians calling them "opportunists," as if they found a niche in the time and space and got in. Contracts signed in 3 days period exceeded $300 Billion. From 120 countries about 10, 000 people
came to SPIEF this year, twice as much from last year's. It shows interest toward Russia only increased.
Apparently Germany, the biggest economy of EU, suffered most from sanctions; so far it lost almost half of it resulting in 2 million unemployed. (Our CharlieRose was in the forum too.) ]

At 1tv.ru/news/polit/286251 Putin said that world can not talk with Russia with language of ultimatums. To the Qs of CharlieRose from CBS about the situation in southeastern UA he said that it's not Russia's fault, they can't influence Kiev and Minsk agreements should be realized.
You should hear this.

In the meantime US troops are landing on Mediterranean Sea to "help" NATO from possible Russian "aggression." Also bureaucrats in EU are talking about putting Russia out of SWIFT banking system. NATO is promising to station 5000 troops in Poland and in 3 Baltic States with heavy weapons. As reporter of this clip says "you can't blame US for not-persistency in obtaining its political goals; little by little, but surely it's coming close to borders of RF. William Bloom, an ex-employee of DOS of US says that America sees itself as a "leader" of the world and its mission is to rule over it, which will bring an escalation of cold war between the two powers and it's very dangerous.
At 1tv.ru/news/world/286252. 

What happened in UA last week, at 1tv.ru/news/world/286253. Lawlessness and chaos deepened, as far as I'm concerned.