Sputnik is live from Russia's St. Petersburg, where President Vladimir Putin is addressing one of the most important business events in the world.
"This is an economic review, since the economy does not exist in isolation from all political and geopolitical realities, it is impossible to skip the special military operation, without the effect of the special military operation on the economy, on international economic processes that are in no way connected with the military operation, develop in their own way," the Kremlin spokesman said priot to Putin's speech.
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