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Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
My name's Ed Butler.
On today's edition, one of cryptocurrency's most notorious figures is facing extradition to the United States today on charges of massive fraud.
What do we know about DO Kwon?
Also in the show, nine months on from the Baltimore Bridge disaster, we speak to two local companies about how they're trying to put their businesses and their lives back together.
It was slow in the beginning.
We opened up the season late, too.
Overall, we had a 34% decrease in revenue year over year from last season to this season.
And how volunteering, also a multi billion dollar industry in the US These days, although it's often overlooked, is now back on the rise in the US I.
Actually signed up the day after the election.
I think I was feeling a real drive to connect with my community and to help out in a tangible way.
All of that to come later in the show.
But first, our main story today.
In what feels like a significant escalation in the political standoff that's affecting Georgia in the caucuses, the US has imposed sanctions on the country's former prime minister.
Bidzina Ivanishvili is the billionaire founder of Georgia's ruling party and its richest citizen.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused him of eroding democratic institutions, of enabling rights abuses, and in the words of the secretary of state, derailing Georgia's euro Atlantic future.
All of which he says leaves the country vulnerable to Russia.
Well, the US Move comes more than two months after the country's disputed elections and there have been almost daily protests like this one since then in the capital, with protesters using fireworks against and against the water cannons of the riot police who aligned against them.
There have been hundreds of arrests.