There’s so much news and noise on the issue of using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine, so I thought it useful to put out a quick Q&A on the issue. How much money are we talking about?There are around $320 billion in Russian central bank assets currently immobilized in Western jurisdictions. If you include oligarch assets, the total amount is nearly $400 billion. Around two-thirds of these assets are in the European Union, mostly in France and Belgium, due to the role played by the financial depository Euroclear. The rest is distributed across the U.K., U.S., Japan, and Switzerland. To put thi…