A close call at Interpol. And how EU pears dodge Russian sanctions.

A close call at Interpol. And how EU pears dodge Russian sanctions.

Author: The Moscow Times November 22, 2018 Duration: 19:13
This week on the program, outspoken Kremlin critic Bill Browder describes his last-minute campaign to stop a Russian general from becoming the president of Interpol. Dutch journalist Tom Vennink tells us how pears from Belgium and the Netherlands circumvent a Russian import ban to end up on supermarket shelves in Moscow.

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