breaking news on r t the ruling tandem is set for rotation russia's prime minister vladimir putin will run for the presidency next year his candidacy was put forward by the beat of it better food agreed to lead the ruling party and the country's government. hello this is r.t. from moscow my name's kevin irwin it's now eight pm here this saturday night and one story as you've heard dominates our coverage tonight the breaking news is the prime minister putin will run for president in the twenty twelve elections but announcement was made that the ruling united russia party the annual convention

present value of his part said that he'll head the party in parliamentary elections and is ready to lead the government if they win these innocent oh i heard the historic speeches firsthand. 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 have some kind of life in the political world here in the country exactly how it would fold no one knew and more importantly no one really expected at least the people here that it would be done to stay and that's partly because the session opened with the two leaders coming in to gather putin 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 my job and when but the people so that's really been the theme of this day despite that though we slowly got hints that maybe today was going to be the day and then president medvedev said this. year should.

i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of let's you know from going into presidential election. thanks. to the supply means i don't have to explain what kind of experience in authority president you know times. you show your skills and i'd like to see something despite rumors that there's been a split within our own time jim i can say this was a well thought through decision. and what came out as more of a surprise than the announcement that lead singer putin would in fact run for president in twenty twelve was the announcement in the proposal from listeners who tend 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 dmitri may take it to go on to be at the top of the list the united russia party into the december parliamentary elections he accepted. but i want to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor to meet you thank you. and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask russian citizens to support the united russia party and we can. you. know you know we just i'm convinced to become prime minister continue to thoroughly modernize our society. the united russia party which shares a great amount of popularity they still have a lot of work to do because there are there figures have gone down in the past couple of years there's a lot of work to do over the next couple of months and the prime minister

understands that president medvedev understands that most of the speeches and. it was not about the presidency who 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 it's big news this is story news that it was easier to put it will run for president. dmitry medvedev will become his prime minister. correspondent in this scenario there are a lot of comments a lot of reaction of course to come this far earlier on let's get on with it surely not colleague rory sushi spoke to our political analyst and crosstalk host people of the expose what lies ahead for vladimir putin and the united russia party now. you know if the guessing game this was all done on purpose i think this is the intention all along at least one variant of it and i think it's because of the united russia is going to be facing elections and 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 that russia needs to be a safe haven they need to these two leaders and this political party is problematic as it is in my opinion the need to show stability continuity an uphill battle for the parliamentary elections at the end of the it's not good although it's not all the loss the smiles at the end of the anything a little bit more competition in the in the in the marketplace of ideas ok we're united russia has been very complacent since the last election because they say we're the party of crude and we're the party of medvedev and that's all nice and fine but we did it in a member and putin will do what they need is executives in the government ok in united russia just wants to hang on to their coattails will do it again but you know. don't reward complacency you 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 ok and parties are part of that institutional process it's been a turn relationship for the person for years now we see it's poised to continue the tandem of the immediate and putin. how would you assess some of your legacy over the past few years how he's been close to russia he's been good for russia is a 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 it's all nice and fine because both of had the same vision for this country but rhetorical so it's age difference why maybe one guy likes one rock band and another one like the other organization you talk about modernization and beating out corruption how does that doubleheader policy has it worked it is working very slowly in a country where change comes very slow you could have political people very quickly very hard. very harsh sometimes when looking at the entire way of russian history but to actually get those roads built and get that infrastructure built and have health care for everyone and he supported 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 atlas that i walked in was saying earlier that moscow itself is an incredibly impressive hub so financial activity is a big trade as well but the further you go from also that's the reality of russia and then we go first full circle to 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 good 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 and 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 needs to get out there it's in the into the structures of russia and really start getting on the common road going to kind of how they get it how do you the part of it you're going to do great mother love me and also said right now and some of these are very good ones very honest very transparent they're looking at less than half the population is interested in them ok that's far different than

it was before it was two thirds for in the last month when you said when you talk about half the population or even less that being interested i was going to ask you where is the support for made it medvedev and putin like this of moscow based support of his national international people a very very national they represent values that russians feel very strongly about do you know so i spoke earlier about leadership qualities this is what something russians very much value the life of 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 we can fight battles and we won't vote we won't vote for anybody. artie's people of elam are called agree sushi a bit earlier on now if you just joined us to remind you of our breaking news this hour earlier this afternoon russia's prime minister vladimir putin said he will run for the presidency next year current president of rivetted gave me full backing

while addressing the annual conference of the country's ruling united russia party it very clear that he had the party in the parliamentary election therefore become prime minister if he wins so he can continue his modernization program and what could now be considered his first campaign speech the putin vowed to boost russia's economic growth and to continue to try to tackle corruption he said russia should soon become one of the world's five strongest economies we've got much more reaction to time on this channel our team. talking of which the good really of a political commentator and member of russia's council for foreign and defense policy says this move may bring a more liberal edge now to the ruling party. firstly mr medvedev will 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 on this super popular president putin that brings ours so a new political reality surprisingly it brings us to a reality where mr putin who is normally associated with sort of strong here on the sort of thing politics could in fact and indeed inevitably carry out the liberal economic agenda i've been saying that the problem with the allies russia party is that it's not capable of reproducing itself ok it was all focused around mr putin it's now going to change of generations of course this is not the sort of radical change which people might have expected of united russia he's now becoming something similar to what the little 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 this ease really something new for russian politics. like a baby and as the for the first question is that the times newspaper in london he told his hopes that the continued economic policies if he becomes prime minister. obviously if he. continues the prime minister will preside over very similar to what we've been seeing for the past few years the objective factors are in russia's large. what is urgently needed. economic reform but shake up the system let's take a couple of them. and. a real shark attack on corruption. talk a little action but only a challenge for the government yes. various reasons for this one is that. need a little bit more foreign investment in projects but you saw that russia has plenty of it in the. broader spectrum of outside interest and the other problem is you

need a much more competitive edge to come of the intrapreneur there are too many monopolies and too many not not. held in place i'm afraid cry corrupt oligarchy. where very keen to get your views on today's news as well we always value your opinion go our website you can have your say on what switching roles in the ruling tandem is going to mean for the future of russia what are your thoughts that cast a vote and check whether people think is one of our. well for further discussion of these developments we're joined live from moscow by under a quarter to ne vice president of a new eurasia foundation this is good to know very good even she thinks being r.t. international now there were rumors that the two might run against each other originally this didn't happen at the end of the day why do you think that was. why i think it's clear that the dead are far is junior to mr putin. we have told you one national leader which was very clearly demonstrate they want to do so i don't

think that one could expect the two men to fight each other. now mind is vision for russia's future during that conference taxes for the rich tackling corruption encouraging big. but your assessment of what he said is a good way forward. while i think that this is a very good question many experts believe that we face and then the very bumpy road ahead of us and some quite radical maybe unpopular maybe even risky decisions have to be made and of course mr putin as a potential president of this country will have to be added to a part of his political capital whether he's ready to do that whether he's ready to take on popular measures or whether he is ready to confront opposition this is something that we have to see in future well i guess one of the big problems is the

problem is for a signal most the rest the world as well in the financial global downturn and putin said the russians and all the crisis so far not too badly now is looking to increase russians financial growth is not really realistic is not possible. well not everything depends on decisions made in russia russia is integrated into the global economy and. you see by many independent variables not all of them we can't possibly control for example a lot depends on oil prices how we are definitely there are decisions that they can and should be made here you know russia for example we need to diversify our economy we need to pay much more attention to small business we need to reform and to more modernize our financial system so there always are you know we just we can't protect ourselves against the downturns of global markets

and i hope that this is something that the new president and the new prime minister will love concentrate on well of course preventives a previous and his last to put for his current to put forward several idea is cheering his presidency so it's about modernization a lot of liberalization will be able to make those continue to happen if he becomes pm. well i could that have a chance to implement at least some of his ideas and i would say that it's not just his ideas it's evident that the russia needs innovation are actually just beyond of his age and we need to move along and the g. economy to a knowledge based economy and we can hope that a large part of current with a bit of agenda will be preserved and developed for their mother could set off ice present of the n.g.o.s you raise your friends thanks for your thoughts. and of course if you missed anything on air you can always catch the full picture on our

website twenty four seven and out of the gate can also follow us on facebook as well you can join with us questions in the main stories including this big story today for us to find updates of the major news on twitter feed to the school column and watch the best videos and all you choose chapel. news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images from. the streets of canada. trying to cope ration through today. so these country groucho brings us now the background towards frequently called the polluted bed of tandem. it's not a surprise that they are being referred to as a tandem because the two have 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 stops in two thousand. how did he is. there was an early election in russia and read him a push and won invited election in two thousand and four he was relaxed so that the president and dimitri medvedev joined he's the so-called cyprus for a 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 and reforms program in russia in two thousand and december two thousand and seven at a similar united russia convention putin made first pen's about that he followed what the candidate for russia's next presidential term and it was an informal backing informal backing all of this from event as

a future president and because of this massive support which was that his popularity significantly diminished from that event it won the presidential election in two thousand and eight ever since his major trend 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 he will serve in office for six years in a row. the political sort of a straw could so as the support putin receives is justified. really very few people doubt of that the prime minister. as the move influential and the most popular political figure he's a charismatic leader is the understand and he has built up his two presidential terms on the d.l. stability which was very important for actions and this is the reason why he won

the support not only for lead but a fruit falls also. whether we like put it on or this is a reality i think that making such a move. or candor as you see they sent a political message to the russians to the press to the world was there to. do it is not our beat it is not absolute this is a rabble construction which can work for years you see it is spreading fact. struck in his thoughts there was remarkable breaking news this hour again early this afternoon probably as to vladimir putin said that he will run for president of russia in the twenty twelve election that was revealed in an address to the annual conference of the ruling united russia party event of gave putin his full backing while themself planning to head the party of the parliamentary election he'll bend

the government if it wins and continue with modernization program as prime minister of the conference would have put had laid out his economic policy a speech that could now be considered his first campaign address he pledged to boost russia's economy and tackle corruption more common john laughlin from the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris told us putin becoming russia's president would have a great impact on european affairs. there are differences they have really big differences between media different groups in one of the. things that people usually said it is that he's moral some are pro western and very liberal and so on whereas putin is more outline that's not my view at all it's after all on the million presidency of life that the russian children's war was fought in two thousand might need to be a war which radically change the balance of power we're going to be just where as it was under vladimir putin to see that nato is large to. include former soviet republics likely baltic states and of course made his famous push into ukraine

literally on traditional to me i was known for all those things happened under clinton was marginal but i'd like to make one point and that is that the international situation that russia will face as who's in takes over power again as president next year and as the russia goes into the elections in december is very very uncertain indeed it may be an 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 and the breakup of the euro in other words we're looking at a seismic shift in the political composition of the european continent and in those circumstances of immense upkeep for in europe in other words among russia's own neighbors russia's own role in that new configuration can only be decisive. blow to dispel a lot of common law the reaction from this childhood a to this big political news is the more of a political analysts think a lot of told us earlier that the popularity of the change in russia and his

leadership predetermine today's decision. you have to understand that. has been extremely popular in russia since ninety nine and he became the prime minister of russian federation before his last presidency and russia has made it agree to a. year's russian g.d.p. has almost doubled the level of life in russia alone russia not only the capitals has improved significantly the russian economy has been constantly rebuilding. pushes rule and then underneath it still but you know they did have such a very ambitious goals during his presidency of them a disease of russia i would rush ahead based on the resources russia has it's very important to try she's an exporting country contre that produces and. global production so in this case russia has a very bright future. so

a big day for russian politics along with the ruling party united russia two other major parties also held their conventions every december elections to the duma the lower house of the russian parliament the communist party was one of them as it gathered to work out their election strategy and select election candidates the oldest parties in the country consistently wins a large number of seats in the parliament with its leader also running for the presidency on a regular basis this is elections not likely to be an exception even as the latest poll places the communist second only to united russia among other parties attempting to make it to the group were just russia the liberal democrats and the recognized democratic opposition party. so bring you up to date on our breaking news if you just joined us now as you can see in the bottom of the screen in red prime minister vladimir putin announced today he will run for the president of russia in the twenty twelve election but news came early this afternoon during the annual conference of the country's ruling united russia party but what if it fully

endorsed putin's presidency and in turn will lead the party in december's parliamentary election and what could be counted this is first campaign speech. pledged to boost russia's economy and also to tackle corruption because more updates of course coming throughout the night. that of russia's foreign affairs committee conference in cause a chance believe today's decision will bring positive changes for the country's foreign policy based believe their predictability and transparency in their would be are doing here inside the united russia party inside of the government the ruling the story this is to be welcomed by anybody else in the world and they believe that the decision which is taken by the court one way or you. really want. to thank. you. because

you are in russia to have this strong completion we will build leaders continue to allow you to give the busy charge of the know you and. in other capacities but stick together to destroy the completion is good for russia it's good for the russian foreign policy and they believe that you. know we continue our special coverage of the day's breaking news but in a prudent candidacy for the twenty twelve presidential election with a special program not a great show crosstalk coming away just a few minutes before the recap of the day's events.

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