Russian minister Maxim Reshetnikov has warned that the country's economy was teetering "on the brink of recession".
At the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, a Russian MP came up to me.
"Are you going to bomb Iran?" he asked.
"I'm not planning to bomb anyone!" I replied.
"I mean you, the British…"
"Don't you mean Donald Trump?"
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"We also think there's a significant probability of Russia's economy slipping into a technical recession in the coming quarters."
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