is donald jensen, he is a senior advisor for russia in europe at the us institute of peace, rosa former us diplomat in moscow. so what was your 1st thoughts when you heard devonte had died in prison? well, shock, of course, like everybody else today, but in a way or not. so got shot. but the, the regime is going into such a repressive direction that people like to devolve a, who's really wanting to do that. domestic critics of the criminal left and increasingly increasing danger. so shocked, but anyway, it was not unexpected. but it's very tragic. and you, you saw the demonstrations in side hooton's repressive state today. so with an election coming up in a 6 weeks boot may have to deal with the electro consequences about what happened today with the fact that the regime murdered of all the now. so i was going to ask you about that sort of the presidential election. you say 6 weeks it's so it's next month. should we be connecting those thoughts, main opposition? figure a dying weeks before putin's scheduled electoral trans. i don't think we should be connected or not connecting. i say t