three. three volunteers in videos for your media project a free video don carty dot com. this is artsy in our main story tonight the ruling tandem is set for rotation russia's prime minister vladimir putin will present for the presidency next year is kind of this he was put forward by the reach of a veteran who in turn agreed to lead the ruling party and the country's government . hello this is r.t. from moscow i'm kevin allen it's midnight here now this very early sunday morning and one story dominates our coverage all day today prime minister putin will run for president in the twenty twelve elections the announcement was made of the ruling united russia party the annual convention president medvedev said that he'll

head the party in parliamentary elections and he's ready to lead the government if they win he's a listen now i heard the historic speech is really as they often. united russia party russia and the world view that somehow one way or another or points in the finger that he has 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 done just today and that's partly because the session opened with the two leaders coming in to gather it's 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 my job and when but the people so that's really been the theme of this day despite the fact that 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 luck in your promotion in the presidential election. thank. you means i don't have to explain what kind of experience and you will receive my remark was announced. thank you show your schedule and i'd like to say something else despite rumors that there's been a split within the only times i'm right in saying that this was a well thought through decision. and what came out as more of a surprise than the announcement that lazier putin would in fact run for president in twenty twelve was the announcement and the proposal from the lead singer 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 read the united front some party into the december parliamentary elections he accepted. but not to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor to meet you thank you but you're going to. the numbers and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i would like to ask russian citizens to support the united russia party with. not really sure you. know you but i will just become convinced to become prime minister who continue to thoroughly 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 their their figures have done 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. speech was not about the presidency who won it was about what this party needs to do to take russia into the next ten years because the country has to be now they need to see development past what i today is really about although of course it's been hijacked by this is big news this is a story that was here puts it will run for president and then dmitri medvedev will become his prime minister. earlier we spoke to political analyst cross-talk host people of well explain what lies ahead now have led him uprooted and the united russia party. 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 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 economics of bellamy that it's about facing the world russia needs to be a safe haven they need to have these two leaders and this political party is problematic as it is in my opinion need to show stability in concert why don't we do more competition in the in the in the marketplace of ideas ok where 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 that's all nice and fine but medvedev in and putin will do what they need is executives in the government ok and united russia just wants to hang on to their coattails all due to 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 and people only you have to have strong institutions ok and parties are part of that institutional process so 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 my some fine because both of had the same vision

for this country could have political upheaval very quickly very hard very harsh sometimes on looking at the entire array of russian history but to actually get those roads built to get that infrastructure built and had no health care for everyone in the city 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 to because their 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 show your butt pay your dues and show you're for the for the current political establishment have to get 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. i always got plenty to say this was from pete as well he used a lively discussion on this issue it is cross talk debate show today it's on the air again a little bit later this year on oxy while the major news in russian politics today

the prime minister vladimir putin will bid for the presidency next year he got the backing from current leader to be treated better while addressing the annual conference of the country's ruling united russia party that meets with whether said he'll head the party in the parliamentary election in december and become prime minister to carry on his modernization program so what can be considered his first campaign speech will give a putin about russia's economic growth and continue tackling corruption he stressed that russia should aim to become one of the world's five strongest economies. we've got thoughts and reaction all day so gave really obvious one of the contributors is a political commentator a member of russia's council for foreign and defense policy told us this move may bring a wall liberal edge now to the ruling party. personally nice to me that it will bring liberal votes for the united russia party because he's of course associated with the liberal agenda and secondly 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 each 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 reality where mr putin who is normally associated with the sort of strong hand that 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 united russia party is that it's not capable of reproducing itself ok it was all focused around mr putin example the change of generations of course this is not the sort of radical change which people might have expected but 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 force their surrogates really of well put a becoming president again may not be the worst option for the west as they already know it was a pioneer that's the opinion of fred weary of the christian science monitor. people become more certain that there is one. paper that says the power of russia in it's here to stay i think that's what this is the message of the world is but it's not a bad message. despite some of the troubles of the putin you know between the west and east. putin was he was kind of soul was reliable predictable. part of the. russian interests very assertively and needs to be nazis would like to see in the united states but it works for there when it's illegal here he's a known quantity he is predictable. capricious or excessive in any way so i think that people will just settle down with the idea

that we've got putin for at least six more years if twelve. then build relations with russia or the beast. attracted money from abroad crucial for developing russia's economy may dream pabst a professor of politics at the university of kent in the u.k. but mr putin becomes president he should make that a priority i think for the best and 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 has the authority to do something about i think our trying to present he needs to strengthen those institutions and he needs a government that can implement with president perhaps becoming prime minister that might be possible but it's not just changing now you need to also change policy and you need to implement across the country we could minister capacities around russia

. fortunately it's still a reality you must consider peacekeepers are vibrant city is perhaps not the case for the region so you really need much greater determination and implementation that it's up to the ruling town and to make that happen. well it was some of the experts have said what do you think about this big political story today that's question we're asking on our web site what you think about this switching of roles and the ruling tandem but i think it will mean for russia this is what you've been telling me is taking the. foremost half of you going down a tad from last think the change will be effective because it's what people wanted but a third of you believe the move will anger both hands and increase the opposition chances and finally as you can see that twenty seven percent of you say this change will be perceived not moved back to me but also boost investment in the country cast your vote at r.t. . it working together for over ten years in today's announcement means this partnership may be set to stay at ease a country which over brings us the background what's frequently called the putin

and. it is a joke i'm only those with. decent competence and must be elected president of the country a person with the possible to work in tandem. two years later the bass in his past in what appear to be an official albeit casual fashion thanks wolf hail from sanford his birth both had the political house for ten years now the two have proved that a double headed eagle on the russian flag is not only an emblem in the two thousand presidential vote after brazil's left office and putin was named his successor it was diligent about who managed his campaign but the world would first hear about five years later when he became prime minister the same year an influential business magazine in russia would name him the man of the year overseeing national

priority projects with a painted his vision for years to come move away from a resource economy modernize the country get rid of caracas all these would later be put together in his manifesto though russia in december two thousand and seven cheering a similar united russia convention it was informally indorsed as a candidate for the country's top job and this time it was putin who delivered his successor it in a successful campaign he's a poor student and that is popularity over seventy percent of the vote and in march two thousand and eight it was elected president one who regarded as more liberal than his predecessor his term would be remembered for reforms in the judicial system and law enforcement investment in new technology and strengthening civil society he also approved a major changes to the constitution by extending the presidential term so if like him or putin makes it to the kremlin in march twenty. third six years should

be a mum. signature good transponding to pull both motos rocked the house down and it wasn't simply the president passing the bus and saying you candidates instead of the two most powerful man in russia. that's proving don't worry about us competing in the upcoming bull as we start will reach an agreement between us long before that it's immigrant children are team. welcome to the program from columnist and political analyst says the support putin receives is justified but really very few people doubt of the prime minister putin as the moost influential and the most popular political figure he's a charismatic leader is you understand and he has built up his two presidential

terms. of stability which was very important for actions and this is the reason why people want to support not only for leave but to fruitful. people we like put it this is a reality i think that making such a move. candombe as you see they sent a political message to the russians as a role to the best of the world that it. is not our beat it is not absolute this is a rival construction which can play it can work for years you see it is quite effective. glinda thought server and record to know if he's vice president of n.g.o.s the regime foundation he told me hopes an event of will find ways to continue his initiatives if he becomes prime minister. i would say that it's not just his ideas it's evident that russia needs innovation. modernization we need to

look at we are all energy economy to knowledge based economy we need to pay much more attention to small business we need to reform and to more grown up modernize our financial system so there always are you know we charge 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 concentrate on this is r.t. it's midnight sixteen here in moscow if you just joined this event dominating the news today prime minister vladimir putin announced that he'll run for president of russia in the twenty twelve election next year it was revealed in the dress for the annual convention of the country's ruling united russia party present coming from a bed of proposed putin for the top job well itself planning to head the parliamentary party the parliamentary election and continue his modernization program to force prime minister during the conference for him

a putin laid out his economic policy in a speech that can now be considered his first campaign address he pledged to boost russia's economy and tackle corruption. well as news filtered through of course we're getting reaction from across the atlantic the white house has said the change in russia's leadership won't affect commitment to the reset in u.s. russian relations and they are chefs in international affairs expert from washington he explained to me why. i believe that russia also is interested in following the process the arms control process in trying to lead us through weapons the same way the united states seem to in doing so for russia's strategic or work and so arsenal. there are in that sense i don't think there is going to be a major change however there is the issue of missile defense and policy or missile defense russia is what was he showed to it is something that has continued

continued unchanged since the days of mr putin us president and i believe that the same arguments are used by russia. they want assurances from nato that the missile defense system based in europe is not going to be used against russia but i think that those can be sure those demands are going to be continued so nakul for the institute for democracy and cooperation in paris says putin becoming russia's president have a great impact on european affairs now. there are differences there have been big differences between if and booted one of the. things that people usually say on it is that he's maul some a pro western road liberal and so on whereas putin is more outline but that's not my view at all or it's after all i'm going to be doing the presidency of life at the russian children of war was fought in two thousand and eight to the war which radically change the balance of power will go s.f. media where as it was and of letting it get easier as you see that nato is march to

. including former soviet republics i will take states on and of course made his famous push into ukraine during the orange revolution jimmy osmond for all those things happened under a new to us well actually i would like to make one point and that is that the international situation that russia will face as. you know takes over power again as president next year and as that russia goes into 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 at 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 up evil in europe in other words among russia's own neighbors russia's own role in that new configuration can only be decisive.

colas of r.t. earlier than the popularity and the change of russia under his leadership pre-determined today's decision. you have to understand that. has been extremely popular in russia since one thousand nine hundred. forty stores to presidents here and russia has made it a great way of those twelve years 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 and. then on the military it's real and you know majority of set a very ambitious goals during his presidency of them that is ation of russia will rush ahead based on the resources russia has it's very important the treasury isn't exporting kanchan to contradict producers and to the global production so in this

case russia has very bright future. more now this is more coverage would be something on it of a get so you know is good for a picture on our website our team dot com started running twenty four seventh's for you it also follows on facebook where you can join the discussion the world main stories and you can find major news on our twitter feed our team at the school cannot forget not leave it all so we wasted more just people with this video as well no you choose to. use today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. trying to corporations the day. the head of russia's foreign affairs committee constant cost of choice i also

believe today's decision will bring positive changes for the country's foreign policy. they believe there predictability and transparency in what we are doing here inside of united russia party inside of the government the ruling to story this is to be welcomed by anybody else in the world and they believe that the decision which is taken by the courts by my wife is a kind. of. thing thank you. and thank. you. eric you think russia to have this strong combination of all your food leaders continue to allow you to give the busy charge of the know you and. other capacities got scooped together if this trial commission is good for russia it's good for the russian

foreign policy and i believe you could. tell me to medvedev put forward some progressive economic cried tears during his time in office michael baden in foreign affairs specialist at the times newspaper in london said it was better for continue promoting peace as prime minister to. i think that if b.p. . continues the prime minister will preside over a very similar problem to what we've been seeing for the past few years the objective factors are in russia's paper had large. resources what is needed is a in economic reform a shake up of the let's take capitalism enterprise. and overwhelmingly a real sharp attack on corruption where there's been a lot of talk a little action no certainly a challenge for the government yes. various reasons for this one is that it does need a little bit more foreign investment in foreign expertise ok russia has plenty of

its own it needs. the spectrum of outside interest and the other problem is you need a much more competitive edge to some of the intrapreneur so far too many monopolies and too many. held in place i'm afraid corrupt oligarchy as a global economy struggles to break free of its downward spiral that of russia's d.t.b. bank says today's announcement will encourage foreign investment. i think it's good news for international rescue community particular now in the very difficult trying to find. very what sounds that investors now conceive the stability of political force as the good of the normal force and it's a particular on the line the need for speed economic growth you mentioned the rate of developing the fall six seven percent of g.d.p. as one of the mean target for. the growth of the one year for the next two years is also some quite the numbers keep walking because now we can use you like one of the

zetia like improving the use of structure and many other very important things to be sure you think for you to be a problem all the parts you. do because these you will become it was one mr ms it will be a prime minister is also i think quite exciting decisions all these congress to the big day the russian politics along with the ruling party united russia two or the major parties held their complexions headed december's elections to the duma the lower house the russian parliament the communist party was one of them as it gathered to work out their election strategy and select through election candidates is one of the oldest parties in the country and consistently wins a large number of seats in the parliament with its leader also running for the presidency on a regular basis this year's election is not likely to be an exception even as the latest poll places the communist on the second to united russia one of the parties attempting to break into the duma the share of just russia the liberal democrats

the recognized democratic opposition party. remind you of russia's main political news today prime minister vladimir putin declared his candidacy for the president of russia in the twenty twelve election in ousmane came earlier this afternoon during the you'll conference of the country's ruling united russia party president dmitri vettel fully endorse putin's presidency and in turn will lead the party in december's parliamentary election is also willing to become prime minister should united russia win in what could be counted as his first campaign speech by the most polluted pledge to russia's economy and tackle corruption. and the football analysis is coming up in our debate show crosstalk in just a few minutes time on this channel five updated the headlines for you.

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