this is. breaking news on the ruling tandem is set for rotation crushers a prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency of next year is kind of a see was put forward by dimitri. agreed to lead the ruling party and the country's got. a very well welcome to you this is on the line from moscow i'm. breaking news for you prime minister putin will run for the presidency in the two thousand and twelve elections the announcement was made at the ruling united russia party convention

president medvedev said that he will head the party in parliamentary elections and is ready to lead the government if they win and he said now we heard the historic speeches first. united russia party russia and the world knew that somehow one way or another in the figure that he is to russia the stability that he brought would remain and have some kind of life in the political world here in the country exactly how it would unfold no one knew and more importantly no one really expected at least the people here that it would be ok and that's partly because the session opened with the two leaders coming in to gather puts in an opening with his speech saying that we the two of us do know how this will all unfold and what's important is not who does what job and when but the people also that's really been the theme of this day despite that we slowly got hints that maybe today was going to be the day and then president medvedev said this. yes. i believe it

would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of flexing your putin in the presidential election. i mean so you don't have to explain what kind of experience and influence he gives him accusing the highest. so. you should just go slow and i'd like to see something else despite rumors that there's been a split within our john jim i can say that this was a well thought through decision. and what came out as more of a surprise than the announcement that led to her pushing would in fact run for president in two thousand and twelve was the announcement and the proposal from the as he was put in to carry on the tradition of modern day russian political tradition which is that now it looks like is that the incumbent president goes on to become the prime minister and also

a proposal for me to be made to make it to go on at the top of the list we've begun to cross a party into the december parliamentary elections he accepted. the apology but not to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor to meet you thought if you got your number and with the parliamentary elections coming in i'd like to ask russian citizens to support the united russia party with me tremendous down on. the issue you. know you may be just what i'm convinced to become prime minister who continue to throw really modernize our society. to the united russia party which shares a great amount of popularity they still have a lot of work to do because they're there thinkers have gone down in the past couple of years there's a lot of work to do over the next couple of months in the prime minister

understands that president medvedev understands that most of the speeches and questions speech was not about the presidency who will run it was about what this party needs to do to take russia into the next ten years the cut the country has to be now they need to see development and that's what today is really about although of course it's being hijacked by this this is big news this is story is that it was in europe which it will run for president. dmitri medvedev will become his prime minister. he's a nice and i'm right there reporting from the conference center where they had the announcement today but now just earlier i did speak to our political analyst and of course cross talk host pete labelle he tries to explain what lies ahead of lot of push in and out of the united russia party. you know if the guessing game this was all done on purpose i think this was the intention all along or at least one variant of it i think it's because of the united russia is going to be facing the elections the parliamentary elections in december they're lagging in the polls they

need some support and the best juice you can possibly get is the two most popular people in the country to agree on something another reason is the turbulence outside russia the economic tsunami that is facing the world russia needs to be a safe haven they need to these two leaders and this political party is problematic is that is that in my opinion the need to show stability and continuity in the uphill battle for the parliamentary elections at the end of the it's not all it's not all the aussie smiles to be anybody anything a little bit more competition in the in the in the marketplace of ideas ok well united russia has been very complacent since the last election because they do say we're the party of putin we're the party of my bed and now that's all nice and fine but madrid and putin will do what they need is executives in the government ok in united russia just wants to hang on to their coattails all do it again but you know . voters don't reward complacency we don't reward people they don't know and i think this is an opportunity still another opportunity for them to actually start making a name for themselves you cannot have politics of people you have to have strong

institutions it's ok and parties are part of that institutional process it's been a tandem relationship for the person for years and now we see it's poised to continue to turn them into a media there and put it. how would you assess some of your legacy over the past few years how he's been good for russia he's been good for russia user popular politician here it's always been the tandem it's always been about these two men here so if they're going to change places are so nice and fine because both of had the same vision for this country the rhetorical yes and it age difference why maybe one guy likes was one rock band and another one like the other organization you talk about modernisation i've beating out corruption how does that doubleheader policy has it worked it is working very slowly and a country will change comes very slowly you could have political upheaval very quickly very hard. very harsh sometimes and looking at the entire array of russian history but to actually get those roads built and get that infrastructure built and health care for everyone i need to put it very well you know you just have to go

outside of the city limits about two hundred kilometers and people are not happy and they don't have as we see with the adults i talk a lot and was saying earlier that moscow itself is an incredibly impressive hub so our financial activities are big trade as well but the further you go from moscow that's the reality of russia and then we go first full circle here rory and that's where a political party like united russia has to say we're here to help you we can go to moscow we go to the parliament we can be your representative personally i don't see enough of that ok and i think it needs to be done it doesn't have to be a place where you just you show your book pay your dues and show you're for the for the current political establishment and i think it out there and roll up your sleeves or actually do something that's what united russia should do because i'll tell you like it or not the communists do that but they do it for the wrong reasons so united russia has to get out there it's either into the structures of russia and really start getting on the common road going to kind of or they're going to have if you for the parliamentary elections of the late mother living in polls and said right now and some of these are very good ones very honest very transparent you're looking at less than half the population is interested in them ok it's far different than it was before was two thirds for you last night when you said when

you talk about a half the population or even less not being interested i was just going to ask you where is the support from a medvedev and putin like is this moscow based support or is it a national international people with very very national they represent values that russians feel very strongly about they you know so i spoke earlier about leadership qualities this is what something russians very much you value be like a strong leader for good or bad reasons that's part of the political culture here. at the same time it's not just about popularity and being a strong figure it's actually producing the goods ok it's the contract the social contract the government will do this you support us ok if the government doesn't do doesn't come through in a way that people are satisfied that they can they can they can fight back and say we won't vote when you won't vote for any. of these people. now. just to remind you of our breaking news here on r.t. russia's prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency in the two thousand and twelve election and the move has the full backing of the current president dmitri medvedev it was all revealed in an address to the annual meeting

of the ruling united russia party a different style will head the party in the parliamentary election saying he could lead the government if they win and continue is not an imitation program from the post or essentially he was his first campaign speech about to increase russia's economic growth continue tackling corruption and boost business we're bringing in more reaction time just as you stay with us here on our team right now for more developments and more analysis on this let's cross live to adrian suppressors politics at the university of kent live in cambridge or oh good to see you so some are calling it a reshuffle some are simply calling it the rotation of the tandem what's your view well it's no big surprise is returning to the presidency the great surprise is that president is going to be heading the governments if and when you know russia become the largest party after the elections in december i think the real question here is

that an institution. how can it be that the president is going to be in the party for the introduction this is actually lowering the boundaries and they would have to rebuild the institutions after the election cycle because at the moment this is not looking really in line with. ok so you're seeing a bit of a future there so far as it goes with a new presidency or should i say another term for a president who is essentially by next year he will have some twenty five years but the question. before the next year is two thousand and twelve presidency has been a long one now it's finally been answered we've seen some more reaction on the domestic front here in russia a certain amount of jubilation in central moscow but what is the reaction been at this point outside of russia. i think this will be met with some suspicion because many politicians and around the world remember. as a very outspoken and sometimes very blunt president who doesn't mince his words maybe

in the national interest i think initially the sense will be that president it was perhaps a more cooperative perhaps more open to finding compromise and therefore i think for some time people will be wondering what exactly from policy might be there are some that say that it was too focused on diplomacy and being likable where many are saying that the russians need a strong leader they like a strong leader and that putin was a no nonsense type of leader what would you think that's what are the people of russia are looking for once again a strong man to man the helm so-to speak. that's certainly part of the culture but i think there's also another russian tradition which is that of institutions which is that of people so the question will be can you combine strong leadership with more vibrant institutions and greater involvement the citizens because i think

in the end russians also want to take part in shaping the destiny of their own country they are all very very patriotic and patriotism isn't just passive it's also active so the question will be how can we can involve the country in the future of russia. let's talk about the more global perspective here when it comes to putin returning to presidency or going forward again having in two thousand and twelve what do you expect the reaction the reactions forthcoming from for example washington d.c. still plenty of all cold warriors calling a lot of the shots on capitol hill. yes i think a lot of called warrior's on both sides and indeed in europe to try hope the pragmatism will prevail i think president give was a kenyan in the reset as was president obama i think this had the backing of prime minister putin i think continue i hope we will deepen and widen our relations with . europe will become more pragmatic and less about cold war stereotypes

but it will take pragmatism on both sides. there's so much to do together can stand control missile defense economic problems. there's no shortage of child defense certainly something i want to touch down on the bush era for for four years the missiles to be housed in western europe and eastern europe as well right in russia's backyard and throughout the middle east what washington says is to defend against a rogue state such as north korea and iran although being put in right across the garden friends from from russia can we see more of a strong perhaps aggressive stance from putin when if he takes the helm next year as we know medvedev has voiced his opposition but hasn't gotten truly angry about the whole european missile defense shield program. yeah the tone has always been very different but i think president was very clear that you opposed the initial plan which is why the garment ministration did revise bush administration's

proposal so i think we get it also had a real impact he didn't just adopt a different tone in is diplomatic dealings with washington will certainly oppose anything that he see that encroaching on russian interests and sovereignty but i think in the end he knows that cooperation will get him further than just opposition i think he knows that when he took a very very strong stance in two thousand and seven at the munich security conference this alienated a lot of people who had principle favor a rapprochement between russia and the west so i thought pragmatism is the more likely option but of course if next year the united states elects a more president then who knows what will happen like one can certainly imagine a president perry or a president pale in not really seeing eye to eye with putin at all so we could be heading back. to a tyrant to a period of much greater tension and i will talk about that hearing with

a new. united russia convention today about american promise for higher pension funding for education health care and health will this help to strengthen russia's ability do you think to attract foreign investors. well i think that's a key question i mean russia has a very strong social state goes back to soviet times but it's not clear that this can be fine and so very long time for that energy prices would have to be very high we know that they're currently falling even if they go up again temporarily it's not a long term strategy so really more investment into infrastructure technology manufacturing is required and that in turn involves as you say a foreign investment i think for investors will only be forthcoming in much greater scope when corruption and the rule of law you know are changed there's too much rampant corruption and too little rule of law. i think the group has the authority to do something about that and i think after social presence he needs to strengthen

those institutions and he needs a government that can implement the president's perhaps becoming prime minister that might be possible but it's not just changing us now you need to also change policy and you need to implement across the country we could minister capacities around russia. fortunately still around people are vibrant city whose blood is not the case for the region so you really need much greater the time a nation and implementation it's up to the ruling tandon to make that happen but. the pressure of politics at the university of many thanks indeed thank you. we always value your opinion here on r.t. if you go to our website you can have your say on what the switching roles of the ruling turn will mean for the future of russia but cast your vote check what other viewers think at r.t. dot com. i mean i'm a sort of political commentator and member of russia's council for foreign and defense policy so this move may actually bring

a more liberal edge to the ruling party. firstly mr magruder who bring liberal votes for the united russia party because he's of course associated with the liberal agenda and secondly all those things which have been inserted into the russian political agenda such as political modernization and also economic modernization and innovation innovations these are things which are normally associated with mr medvedev name so if he becomes a reformist prime minister are those super popular president putin that brings ours so a new political reality surprisingly and brings us to reality where mr putin who is normally associated with a sort of strong hand the sort of thing politics coups in fact and indeed inevitably carry on with quite a liberal economic agenda i've been saying that the problem with the united russia party is that it's not capable of reproducing itself ok it was all focused around

mystical to each other the change of generations of course this is not the sort of radical change which people might have expected but the united russia is now becoming something similar to what the liberal democrats in japan are into what the p.r.i. party in mexico used to be that is to say it's the ruling party which is capable of reproducing a new generation of leaders at least he's really something new for russian politics and i we also spoke to john locke in an interview in cooperation in paris and he says that today's announcement of proof that the rumors of a rift we're going to tie them were highly exaggerated. now there are differences there have really big differences between if and one of the three main things that people usually said i mean if it's pretty small some are pro western and probably liberal and so on whereas putin is more hardline that's not my view at all or it's after a lot of media doing the presidency had left but the russian children of war was fought in two thousand that may trigger the war which radically change the balance

of power we're going to sweden where as it was under vladimir putin has seen that nato enlargement. only included former soviet republics like baltic states and of course made his famous question to you green literally orange revolution of two thousand and four all those things happened under go to persuasion i would like to make one point and that is that the international situation that russia will face as. in takes over power again as president next year and as that russia goes into the elections in december is very very uncertain indeed hit me in obvious point to make but i think it's worth recalling that we are looking now as has been said in the press now for many months at the breakup of the euro in other words we are looking at a seismic shift in the political composition of the european continent and in those circumstances of immense our people in europe in other words among russia's own name but it's russia's own role in that new configuration can only be decisive.

political analyst there are there to unlock and we spoke to him just a bit earlier here are we also chatted with michael binyon foreign affairs specialist at the times newspaper in london hoping they're going to move here there for i think can continue his economic policies if indeed he becomes prime minister . i think. obviously if he. continues the prime minister will preside over a very similar to what we've been seeing for the past few years the objective factors are in russia's paper it has large. resources what is urgently needed there is economic reform of shaping up a system let's take capitalism. and overwhelmingly real sharp attack on corruption. talk very little action and i would certainly a challenge for the government yes. various reasons for this one is that. need a little bit more foreign investment and foreign expertise or by russia has plenty

to. be you know a broader spectrum of outside interest and the problem is you need a much more competitive edge to some of these. too many monopolies and too many monopolies in place i'm afraid right corrupt oligarchy which you without a life from moscow just to remind you of our breaking news story this hour just a short time ago the russian prime minister vladimir putin announced that he will run for the presidency of two thousand and twelve he made the announcement when addressing the members of the ruling united russia party. fully endorsed presidency and in turn will lead the party in december's parliamentary election in what can be counted as his first campaign spent a lot of effort in pledged to booth russia's economy and tackle corruption i do stay with us for the latest updates. and r.t. so you can react gretsch over brings us now the background she was frequently

called the putin and medvedev tandem. it's not a surprise the bay are being referred to as a tandem because the two i've been working together very closely as political associates for over ten years now well just a short recap reminder of how both made it to russia still jobs in two thousand. he is. there was another election in russia and vladimir putin was invited lection into the thousand for he was reelected as the president and to me trinidadians joined he's the so-called cyprus team. in two thousand and five he became russia's first deputy prime minister after a very successful academic career and measurement that it was largely tasked with overseeing the major what it is ation reforms program in russia in two thousand and december two thousand and seven at a similar united russia convention of putin may first tense about. what the

candidate for russia's next presidential term and it was an informal backing informal backing of mr medvedev has a future president and because of these massive support which is that he's popular it is significant he won the presidential election in two thousand and eight ever since he's made it has been a wide modernization program also introduced some major changes to russia's constitution such as enlarging the presidential term from four to six years so if putin wins in the presidential vote on march twentieth well he will serve in office for six years in a row. right there but if you missed anything on air you can always get the full picture on our website r.t. dot com also though don't forget to follow us on facebook where you can join the discussion and all of our lives and find updates and all the major news on our

twitter feed our underscore. political analyst you got told us earlier that putin's popularity in the change in russia and it was going to show actually a pre-determined decision to have to understand that. has been extremely popular in russia since one thousand nine hundred ninety when he became prime minister of russian federation first big before his tours to presidency and russia has made agree to a june twelfth. russian g.d.p. has almost doubled the level of life in russia all russia not only the capitals has improved now the russian economy has been constantly rebuilding and pushes rule and then underneath that it's real but you know we did have such a very ambitious goals during. a presidency of them would ization of russia are moving ahead based on the resources russia it's very important the treasury's and

exporting country the contre their producers and to their global production so in this case russia has a very bright future. of the christian science monitor he told us that if prudent does become president again for two thousand and twelve it won't be the worst option for the west as they already know him as a. but people will become more certain that there is one. paper the system of power in russia and it's here to stay i think that's what this the message of the world is not it's not a bad message i don't think. it's quite some of the troubles of the coup to me are you know between the west and east. and was seen as kind of solid reliable predictable partner the best russian interests very assertively and that's you know that may not see what they'd like to see in the united states but it works for them it's they know him he's

a known quantity and he is predictable not capricious school or excessive in any way so i think that people will just settle down to the idea that we could put in for at least six more years if not twelve then we'll build relations with russia on that basis. fred we are right there at the christian science monitor what it has been as i'm sure you know a big day for russian politics along with the ruling party united russia to other major parties held their conventions ahead of december's elections to the duma the lower house of the russian parliament and communist party was one of them is that they got it to work out their election strategy under select their election candidates one of the oldest parties in the country consistently wins a large number of seats in the parliament and its leader also running for the presidency on a regular basis this year's election is not likely to be an exception this latest poll places the communists second only to ignited russia among other parties attempting to make it to the duma just russia party the liberal democrats and they

recognise the democratic opposition party known as your book. all right so you would like to live from moscow with me rory sushi i just to remind you of our breaking news this hour just a short while ago the russian prime minister vladimir putin announced that he will run for the president of russia in two thousand and twelve he made the announcement when addressing the members of the ruling united russia party to fully endorse putin's presidents who will be the party in december's parliamentary election in what can be counted as a first campaign speech lot of may putin pledged to boost russia's economy and tackle corruption i do stay with us for all the latest updates your breaking news right here on the hot seat. and i'll be back in just a few moments to stay with us. very

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