So let's start with the basics: who is Sergei Leontiev?

让我们从最基本的问题开始吧：谢尔盖·列昂季耶夫是谁？

So Sergei Leontiev was a Russian banker.

谢尔盖·列昂季耶夫是一位俄罗斯银行家。

And how did the war in Ukraine affect Leontiev's asylum case in the US?

乌克兰战争如何影响列昂蒂耶夫在美国的庇护案？

What do you think Leontiev's story tells us about Russia?

你认为列昂季耶夫的故事告诉了我们关于俄罗斯的什么内情呢？

So Leontiev received asylum in New York a few weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine.

列昂季耶夫在俄乌之战几周后在纽约获得了庇护。

But the story of Sergei Leontiev turned out to be a lot more complicated than it seemed at first glance.

但是谢尔盖·列昂蒂耶夫的故事比乍一看要复杂得多。

I think people in the west were a lot more receptive to Leontiev's story after the invasion.

我认为西方人在俄乌战争后更容易接受列昂季耶夫版本的故事。

So that's the other side of the story, which is the charge that the Russian government made against Leontiev, basically saying that he was a fraudster.

这是故事的另一面，也就是俄罗斯政府对列昂季耶夫的指控，说他是个骗子。

And obviously, Leontiev firmly denies that version of the story, and there's a lot of reason now to question Russia's motives in these sorts of cases.

显然，列昂季耶夫坚决否认这个版本，现在有很多理由质疑俄罗斯在这些案件中的动机。