and again this is all she and top story they sound prime minister vladimir putin now says he has to run for the russian presidency in twenty twelve financed by the man in office now determined that it presents a better also revealed believes the country's ruling party united russia and december's parliamentary elections and become the new prime minister should win and offloads and see. more on what some today's announcements mean for russia and the night as edition of our interview live that's up next.

question is that so much as i was about to go i think you have a really. precious great political game has come to when president dmitri medvedev announced a piece of work by me that's canada speak to succeed him in next year's president. hello again to welcome to spotlight the interview show on our t.v. . today we're talking about the presidential race the decades biggest political mystery has he finally so glad you pointed out his presidential bid being nominated by ruling the. country and many believe that conflict inside the times them as the nomination is backed by the current president. that

allows you to become prime minister and that is russia party. that means russia's top political elite is unlikely to change the next six or even twelve years. to russia what do we have to expect from the full time to december and also march two thousand and twelve when the presidential election will take place we'll be discussing this with political analyst and research fellow at the institute of world economy and its national. wealth and a political columnist so let's start with what retreat medvedev had to say. i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of clinton in the presidential election in.

this applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience and. thank you showing your skillful of me and i'd like to see something else despite rumors that it is going to split within you and i can see that this was a well thought through decision. tree. mr babich mr very much for joining us on the show welcome to the spotlight no it is this it so do we know the name of the next russian president take would you say actually i think we already know was the name of the next trashing president next trashing our prime minister but you know i think it's not due to the bureaucratic reasons and some experts say i think there. has been over twelve years in public politics he has proven to be a real leader of a new russia russian g.d.p.

has almost doubled in the last twelve years while social stability and. steady development have been achieved so there are good grounds of for these. way of conducting wars of foreign and domestic policy and most russians do really support the standard to do dimitri agree that this is it. the intrigue intrigue is no no longer there i would say never say you're sure especially in russia because the country. we have seen a lot of times during the last twenty years or maybe even i would say twenty five years that it's very difficult to predict something in russia for sure the situation may develop in a lot of ways but. fortunately or unfortunately now it's more or less clear that in march the president will be abiding report. according to to the changes the

constitution the russian president will be elected for six years he could be there for two terms so do you think that let me put it will be there for the next twelve years or. we cannot be so sure now we will never know we're talking about about six for your opinion well i think the russian elite since one thousand nine hundred one has been pursuing apes first team is political stability to keep power and money. the second is to integrate this newly into the western political you put in is responsible for the first priority so he will be number one and he was number one during most of those years and midriff is responsible for the second priority so he will always be number two in so they stand. in general we'll see how the situation develops i think the choice of you know the kind of called keep running we have never had a fair say no proof yet another term i think the choice shorts that there are some

hard times that sort of time share in internal politics for unstable russia and for the war you know the euro groundling odds are one of the things europe is russia's largest economic partner so we're going to europe gets gets a called russia will be also sneezing so all busily they opted for a safer bet not during the burst of flame sale. in the united states we are there the day they called they would call medvedev lame duck right now do you think in russia he will be a lame duck now i mean by by american standards or not or is that it's different in russian politics i think in russia it's really different and first of all the basic reason of that you know not only in russia but in other. countries the most high valued commodity he is stability and economic development and i think that one of the major achievements or for dinner with him has been the creation of the system

where it doesn't really matter who is the president and who is the prime minister because of the general course of the country it goes on its way and in this case i think i don't. no matter whether you will hold his paws as a president for two consecutive terms all whether there will change with me today for any other. and the other person who maybe we don't know but the basic idea is that both the russian elite as my colleague has said and russian general public are interested in stability and they develop and so they're able to get used to these people are experts are predicting hard times for will decline for russian economy in the coming year so first of all i'd like i like to know your reaction how may the he did more kids react to this news that we're hearing today and is putin's first room at least. is it going to be hard i mean.

economically though i think the markets will react positively because they're split in steam everywhere in russia so the fact that the parent here is back and all. of you know you know we one hundred percent i mean one hundred percent of our he's back one hundred one so that's good news for markets but he's facing hard times and i will say this of all the western politicians western politicians including vice president the u.s. vice president joe biden who came here made it very clear that they would prefer to deal with medvedev. a victory on the court which who is going to meet our president today may also be a little disappointed because he also all bets on medvedev and now he's talking to a well known long normally thought visit here there is a sudden. disparity they call to me between the market some of us and politicians and i think that shows you how i would see you really stick is western policy

towards russia sometimes the markets see one thing and religion states quite why i was asking about the hard times because because putin did promise have the scroll now to to reason russia's g.d.p. . to a level of seven percent but on the same day finance minister input is government mr coogan said that the next decade is going to be lost because of slow world g.d.p. growth people some are even expecting a crisis coming and how are these two promises comparable in oregon i guess this is a misquotation really important is open i mean cauldrons i mean it's it's misquotation because quillan said absolutely the opposite thing is going to be laws decayed for the world economy that is slumping into recession while he said nothing about russia so he said it would not be easy for russian economy before us and he saw the context is that russia is an exporting

a quantum and no export so much higher than our imports so there's a core that's the contre that adds to the global g.d.p. of the country has a positive. export import balance in this case russia is the contra that actually adds up to the global g.d.p. and it will not it is not going to face any major crisis of course there is a global economy and we know there are crisis in the euro zone which could easily cause the collapse of the whole euro zone if greece is followed by spain italy and other large branches you know european union is the major. partner but also there's the science of second wave of recession in the united states so it's not going to be easy in russia but you know the first wave of crisis well three years ago was passed by russia relatively easily not only in economic terms but its social demographic and political terms so russian of the pillars of russian political

system. well i guess in this context you see. the global economy is going to have a lost decade by russian economy is going to develop if you do yours. the reason i'm asking is that putin's popularity let's face it i mean within his first term in office was very highly based on the high oil prices he gave a lot into country economically so will he be able to give as much in his next two . i would say agree with. which and second on a policy all business had legs because the country didn't collapse during the financial crisis and indeed the standard of living improved. you know the problem is in you know modern economy you can never be sure that next year you won't have a major problem we've seen it many times in europe and in other places and certainly i think they're. kind of is bracing out for hard times and not for the

best of times both of you today in this studio well are expressing the opinion that there were there will be no will we will not be facing any surprises either on the elections to have an interim action against a duma december nor the presidential election so what about the turnouts are people going to to use their legs to park to the. police stations to vote do you expect a high turnout and when medvedev is leading the ruling party into the elections and later putin is running for president where people say well what difference would think. well i think. it will depend on the propaganda strategy that bore the state and the opposition will use their position a during the last few months i've heard their position basically saying that we should not discourage people to vote because if you don't have all of your good it and can be used by you know of by the state the way it was so basically

your. i will not be surprised if the turnout is not so bad. clancy grier. it depends on propaganda much because the russian electorate is russian people are much more experienced than they're not naive at all and they're not good subject to propaganda they have seen so much in the last few decades so they know quite well home to elect say political analyst. and reprieve babbage spotlight we'll be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us. in the faraway land where human life is ruled by nature. the

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course have been able. to teach began a journey. where did it take the. welcome back to spotlight i'm al gore novel in just a reminder that my guests today are political analysts eager hostile often to meet the babiche and we are discussing the latest news the russian politics in prime minister putin has. agreed to become the next president of russia to to run rather for the next president russia after the current president meets in advance of. proposed him at the. congress of the united. russia group. today we see we're facing an upcoming reshuffle of the time so the prime minister is going to become the president of the ring to become prime

minister and this looks as if it's decided on really at least among the russian political elite so german do you think that this decision that and that was announced today. you know maybe maybe even back in two thousand and seven would you say what wasn't a national plan to go on this way to get i don't think the initial plan because russian politics doesn't include very sophisticated so you see it because of the girls putin has proven to be a really good president because if. you have been living in russia all this period and i can compare the situation back in one thousand nine hundred nine and to enjoy it and what is happening right now so he has really proven to be the leader of all the russians are because i can see him talking every day to people in russia that

he is popular both in the small business raj business ordinary people and travel extensively all or russian reading poor of the north caucasus really support them people in the not courses caucuses are really grateful that he present fired this region and contributed a lot to their quality of living there and also putin is very popular among very young people people maybe who were children when he got into power who went to kindergarten he is popular among them and their future electorate in this context i think there is no. plan plan at all and goes as a goes up would have the really proven to be a national leader and little it has already also contributed a lot so now we are going to see another six or maybe two consecutive presidential contests twelve. yes and i think this tradition is going to develop or the way it will be before. you please i would not quite plain sight your role in picture

because despite all the humans well let me give you an example with the north caucasus in good kitchen i will specify it there is no war going on that's a huge achievement by parasitic to vittie in neighboring dagestan is huge it's much worse than in the ninety's the same thing in english so basically the problems never disappear they used to be spills all the two other places and that's why i don't think it is a decision was taken along a goal because i think the turndown had to react can you challenge us every deep well i think one of the reasons why i would say the more conservative variant was children. are to a large extent it was the best policy of the western elite never quite accepted the russian elite as its part basically force hostile we've seen all of these alternatives to oil ruled so to have still gas pipelines all these things joe biden

saying that he would not behave interest what even put him back in kremlin so in this situation the first who would move the woo hoo to biden would need to hide behind i don't think you look sions into the countries machine russia it was i believe it was me to meet him by nappy rule it was regional or were. exactly the opposite effect to in the one that biden might want to have it i think it contributed. contributed to the decision that was taken to date. i'm not quite sure that biden is as smart as to wish to become the new president and to do it this way you know provoke a russian elite into a sort of you know defensive stand but i think the general result was that the west has been hostile there is no. timetable for russia's integration into the european union into european structures in general so that's why i think the more conservative variant was still. in awe of it being popular with the rest and the

lid is always a bird although for russian leader as most all russian public he is pretty conservative not hostile but conservative towards the true intentions of washington and brussels and many russians spared the base and played year of the worst of the term russian into the colony or importing from russian natural resources and understanding their dollars and euros so in this case being popular with the loot is not an asylum for a russian leader i don't know what the politician parker would do was to me by now he's getting ready to to to to go into political people in and the one with the modernization of the country prime minister putin today made in the other very important in outland and let's hear a quote right now. i would like 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 with. you. was going to be convinced to become prime minister continue to thoroughly modernize our society. both and move good and lay true methods press secretary mr pascoe for after the congress was. closed today said that there will be a reshuffle of the government of the government we need a major reshuffle said so do you think that this. the next intrigue we will be following and russia what's going to happen to the government some of the ministers who will keep their seats and well i would say that mediator pressure on yourself

to be less conservative in terms of personnel avoiding reporting. has basically stayed with the same ministers during all he has been you as the prime minister and you know most of his term he also had to. change the prime minister several times but he didn't change the minister is the surprise of this stay the same of the will just make some small changes so in general midriff is seen as a sort of a process and no reform. it's just sometimes easier for him to fight people than for mr putin but i would also like to see you know there is a very contradictory. objectives that they are tandem faces because i agree with igor on the one hand russian public is is is very suspicious of the western intentions towards russia and rightly so on the other hand the aim is to integrate

russia into the world economy so every russian leader faces is the element not to be too popular with the west that will make him a little bit look very suspicious to his own audience and not to alienate the west because they're only in danger russia's you know integration into what putin is coming back he's likely to come back in less than a used gud be a new putin who should we expect something new from the new president suv that would put it in terms of internal politics in terms of economic problems in terms of the general mood in the country and most of all you know any politician as in any after has to reinvent himself to stay popular with probably a decade spars there can one thousand nine hundred ninety nine. when i came into power first as prime minister and then as president. that actually was. very

dear all securing their what was left of the soviet union stabilizing because she and adding more security to their to people and generally this task has been solved russian g.d.p. has been steadily growing since generally the quality of living in russia has been improving but now there are new challenges putin has grown and you. loss in russia and that's already a fact these people demand are more freedom they demand more political freedom they want to play a more active part in the social political life and in this case i think. putin has also or proven him to be a person who is ready to change with the contrary of the country changes he also changes the house in primaries of the united russia or russia party primaries which are a different from what is usually understood under this wording in league medical experience

because you know half of. our so-called porton people's front gets in to do mine they're not members of united russia those are people who don't belong to any party they're just popular in their village in their district but people know all of them respect them and they want to see them in you might have is a lot. of russian parliament you know this is very important sign that putin is reinventing himself as a political leader and he feels the trends in russian society are very well. it is a very good remark and i roll so notice that they seem to be very proud when he spoke at last congress and when he was saying that that we do have a civil society russia. and that this all he said is a demonstration of the civil society when he said half of the list of the ruling party is going to run for parliament and the other party members and some some of

what do you believe literally do you think do you think this is just of that propaganda that you mention quarter were put in is really trying to become and you could well yes and not because on the one hand i agree that argument portion is a very capable politician and he's very capable to change his own ideas with time i think the west has made a major mistake when they saw him just as a former k.g.b. officer and didn't see for example his into brain or experience so they underestimated him but part of his team which didn't change from many years is a bit i would say is not as dynamic as i would like it to be thank you thank you very much dmitry and just to remind you that between babiche and needed across the political analyst and columnist we're meridians on the show today we discuss the latest political news from russia and not food for now from all of us here

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