keep up with the. issue became a dinosaur. you're watching on change this is our main story this hour prime minister vladimir putin announces his to run for the russian presidency in twenty twelve octopi the man in office now to make sure that if the president of also revealed to leave the country's ruling party united russia can descend this presidential elections and become the new prime minister should win enough votes and seat. and a more northstar today's announcement mean for russia in the nation's additional into show spotlight that's up next.

sure is that so much i was about to say that i think if you haven't really played with precious me political game has come to an end president dmitri medvedev announced the piece of work by me who can scan in history to succeed him in next year's president. hello again a welcome to spark plug into the show on our t.v. i'll do we are going to do we're talking about the presidential race the decades biggest political mystery has confined so bloody phone to his presidential bid being nominated by the ruling. countries and many believe that. inside the time them as the nomination is backed by the current president. agreed to become prime minister if putin and russia russia party are telling that

mean 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 shop full time to december and to wash 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 nations. and a political columnist so let's start with what we trade medvedev to say. i believe it would be right for the convention to support the candidacy of legitimate concern in the presidential election.

he simply means i don't have to explain what kind of experience and. thank you sure you're skillful and i'd like to see something else despite rumors that there's been a split within your turns him i can see that this was a well thought through decision. mr babich mr harper thank you very much for joining us on the show welcome to spar one no is this it so do we know the name of the next russian president think of some of you actually think we're already know was the name of the nets trashing president and their names trashing our prime minister but you know i think it's not due to the reasons and some experts say i think there was in of pollution has been over twelve years in public quality it's just proven to be a real leader of a new russia russian he has almost doubled in the last twelve years while social

stability and. the development have been achieved so there are good grounds for continuing the. way of conducting wars of foreign and domestic policy and most russians who really support the stand on to do dude mutually agree that this is it . the intrigue intrigue is no no longer there i would see never say you're sure specially in russia because the country. we have seen a lot of times during the last twenty years maybe even i will see twenty five years but it's very difficult to predict something 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 very much put. according to true to a change to the constitution the russian president will be elected for six years

you can be there for two terms so do you think that the will be there for the next twelve years or so. we cannot be so sure now we were never there we're talking about about six europe in well i think the russian elite since one thousand nine hundred one has been pursuing apes first team is political stability the power of money. the second is to integrate this new lead into the western political putin 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 fortune you know the condom called keep running with mildred a first year i don't know i think the choice sure there are some hard times ahead so the time to check in internal politics for instance all russia and for the war

you know the euro grumbling lots of other things but europe is russia's largest economic partner so when europe gets gets a call that russia will be also sneezing so all of this leave the auto for a safer bet not during the best of times. even in the united states we're there. they would call medvedev lame duck right now do you think in russia he will be a lame duck now i mean bad by american standards or not or is this different interesting point i think in russia it's really different and first of all the basic reason and that you know not only in russia bardeen other. countries of the most high valued commodity is the ability and economic development and i think that one of the major achievements of pollution has been the creation of a system where it doesn't really matter who is the president and who is the prime

minister because of the general course of the clown she goes on in a new lease case i think it does. matter whether pushing will halt his cause as a president for two consecutive terms or whether there will change with me better for any other. and the other person who maybe we don't know but the basic idea is that both russian elites as my colleague and russian general public are interested in stability and their development so they're able to get used to these people are desperate so predicting the hard times for would economy for russian economy in the coming year so first of all i'd like i like to know your reaction how may the the markets react to this news that they were hearing today and and is putin's first. is it going to be hard i mean.

economically oh i think the markets will react positively because there is prudence team everywhere in russia so the fact that the pattern is back and all one hundred percent when you've been away one hundred percent is no kind of percent of what are his back bottom line and so that's good news for markets but he's facing hard times and what i will say this about all the western politicians western politicians including the 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 and they also will be a little disappointed because he also will bet on mitigator for an artist looking to well lame young normally so obviously there is a sudden there are certain disparity they call to me between the markets and western politicians and i think that shows you how i would see you really stick is western policy towards russia sometimes the markets say one thing and the militias say it's great to do why i was asking you about the hard times because because

putin did promise had this quote now to to reason russia's g d p. to a level of seven percent that on the same day finance minister includes government minister could it be 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 is already well i guess this is a nice call i mean it couldn't i mean cauldrons i mean it's it's misquotation because quillan said absolutely the opposite i think his serve is going to be laws decayed for the world economy there is slumping into recession while he said nothing about russia so he said it would not be easy for russian economy before us if we saw the context is the trasher is an exporting economy and our exports are much higher than our. accordance and contra that adds to the global g.d.p.

the country of it has positive. export import balance in this case russia is the country that actually adds up to the global g.d.p. and it will not it's 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 a collapse of the whole euro zone if greece is followed by spain italy and other large crunches you know european union is our major. partner also on 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 back three years ago was passed by russia relatively easily not only in economic terms but its social demographic and political trends so russian the pillars of russian political system . well i guess some of these contexts. the global

economy is going to have a lost decade but the russian economy is going to develop leisure if you really understood. 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 to country economically so will he be able to give as much in his next to well i would say agree with. which and second on the policy all because they 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 modern economy you can never be sure that next year you all have a major problem we have seen it many times in europe and in other places and certainly i think there. tandem is bracing up for hard times and or offer the best of perhaps both of you today in the studio when are expressing the opinion that

there were there will be no will we will not be facing any surprises either on the elections to parliamentary election they can stay duma december nor the presidential election so what about the turnout are people going to use their legs to walk to the. police stations to vote do you expect a high turnout would mean that there is leading the ruling party into the elections and later put in is this ruling for president where people say well what difference would. well i think. it will depend on the propaganda strategy of the war for the state and the opposition will use their position in during the last few months i've heard the opposition basically saying that we should not discourage people to vote because if you don't have all your bulletin can be used by you know of by the state the way it once so basically. i i will not be

surprised if the turnout is not so bad. yet i plan to agree on a very good sense on propaganda much because the russian electorate is in russian people are much more experienced and they're not naive a tall and they're not good subject to propaganda they have seen so much in the last few decades so they know quite well who to elect see political analyst even hamas and the spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us. the faraway land. where human life is ruled by nature. of planet earth is scarcely preserved by the per. inch anonymous lie

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines if you need to cause a record. twenty years ago the largest country. to sort of list. if. each. where did it take. welcome back to spotlight i'm just a reminder that my guests today are political and you get hostile or for the. babiche and we are discussing the latest news in russian projects. produced putin has. agreed to become the next president russia due to run rather for the next

president russia after the current president meets with various. proposed him at the. congress of the united. russia ruling party so today we we see were facing an upcoming reshuffle in the time of the prime minister is going to become the president of the agreeing to become prime minister and this well looks as if it's decided on really at least among the russian but in the political elite so gentleman do you think that this decision that and that was announced today actually was taken long ago maybe maybe even back in two thousand and seven what would you say what was the initial plan to go on this way to get i don't think there's initial plan because russian politics doesn't include very sophisticated skin so you see in goals as a girl's put in has proven to be

a really good president because you've. been living in russia all this period and i can compare the situation back in one thousand nine thousand island 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 talking every day to people in russia that he's popular balls with small business arrived business ordinary people actual extensively all rushing from poor regions of the north caucasus really supported them people in the not horses caucuses are really grateful that your person fired this region and contributed a lot to their quality of living there and also which was very popular among very young people people maybe who would children when he got into power over who went to kindergarten he scored. well among them and their future electorate in this context i think there's no no mastermind plan plan a toll that goes as it goes really proving to be a national leader and it is of course always also contributed

a lot so now we are going to see another six or maybe two consecutive presidential terms that's twelve years and i think this situation is going to develop or the way it is a bit before you need to get these are going to not right brain structure rolling picture of course despite all the children's well let me give you an example with the north caucasus indeed trishna was specified there is no war going on that's a huge achievement but terrorist activity in neighboring dug a start it's huge it's much worse than just the same thing in the year so basically there are the problems never disappear the instability spills over to other places and that's why i don't think this decision was taken a long ago all because i think the turndown had to react to new challenges every day well i think one of the reasons why i would say the more conservative variant

was trolls on. a large extent it was the west the western elite never quite accepted the russian elite as its part basically it was hostile we've seen all of this alternatives to all ruled so to have still gas pipelines all these things joe biden saying that he would not get. back and grammarian so in this situation the first. who jus biden what makes you happy i don't think elections in the countries bush in russia it was all agreed with me to meet him by now how do you rule where it was all to regional or were. exactly the opposite effect in two of the wonder vigeland might want to have. i think it contributed. contributed to the decision that was taken today yeah but i'm not quite sure that biden is as smart as to wish to become the new president and to do it this way at all provoking

russian elite into a sort of 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 chosen and you know that being popular with the rest of the lord is always a bird allman for russian leader as most the russian public is pretty conservative not hostile but conservative towards the true intentions of washington and brussels and many russians are spared but the basic idea of the worst is to turn russia into the colony or importing from russia natural resources than just watching their dollars and europe's so in this case being popular with one of the lead is a northerner sign for a russian leader i don't know what will the politician party with the worst lead right now he's getting ready to to to to go into the real politic and he put in and

go well with the modernization of the country prime minister putin today made in other very important nouns mint and let's hear a quote right now. i'd 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 but it's a good number and with the parliamentary elections coming in i'd like to ask russian citizens to support the united russia party we can. not to lose you you. know you i'm convinced to become prime minister continue to thoroughly modernize our society. human. and did live and laid two methods for secretary mr prescott after the the.

they said that there will be a reshuffle of the government the government we need a major reshuffle said so do you think that this is the next intrigue we will be following in russia what's going to happen to the government two of the ministers will will keep their seats well i would say that the media pressure on yourself to be less conservative incomes of personnel avoiding or putting a lot of reporters on or has basically stayed with the same ministers during or here's to you as the prime minister and you know most of his term he also thought he had to he changed the prime minister several times but he didn't change the me just simply the size of the stay the same or all just make some small changes so in general with a difference seen as a sort of a personnel reform. it's just sometimes easier for him to fly people than for mr

putin but i would also like to see you know there is a very contradictory. objectives that they're counting faces because i agree with igor on the one hand russian public is very suspicious of the western intentions towards russia and rightly a soul on the other hand there is a mr integrate russia into the world economy so every russian leader faces these daily not to be too popular with the west that would make him a little bit walk a 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 would be a ye putin. should we expect something new from the new president zuma had put it in terms of interim point six in terms of economic prospects in terms of the general mood in the country. most of all you know any politician as an

actor has to reinvent himself to stay popular with probably a decade spars weapon nineteen ninety nine when putin came into power first as prime minister and then president. actually was. a deal of securing their what was left of the soviet union stabilizing the concha and adding more security to. the 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 the new challenges putin has grown in you probably would walk lost in russia that's already a fact these people demand are more freedom they demand more political freedom they want to take more active part in the social political life and in this case i

think. putin has also or proved him to be a person who is ready to change with the country as the country changes he also changes the house in primaries you know the united russia and russia party are. a bit different from what is usually understood under this roof in the american experience because you know half of all four are. so-called poor peoples franchot gets introduced they're not members of united russia those are people who don't belong to any party they're just poor people in their village in their district but people know all of them respect with them then they want to see them. do more that is the one. wolf russian parliament you know this is a very important sign that eases reinventing himself as a political leader and he feels the trance and russian society very well it's it is a very good remark and i also notice that today that putin seem to be very proud

when he spoke and the congress and when he was saying that that we do have a civil society in russia and that this whole he said is a demonstration of the civil society when he said half of the list of the ruling party is going through and from on and on twenty minutes and so on so what do you believe to be true do you think do you think this is just of that propaganda that you mentioned or what putin is really trying to become and you could well yes and not because on the one hand i agree that what you're reporting 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 entrepreneurialism spirit and so they underestimated him but part of his team which didn't change for many years is

a bit i would say is not as dynamic as we would like it to me thank you thank you very much dmitry and just a reminder that me please babiche are needed for one political analyst and columnist who are my guests on the show today we discuss the latest political news from russia and that's it for now from all of us here spotlighted we'll be back with more first and comment on what's going on in and outside russian of course who will follow the election campaign in this country so stay tuned to russia to the east and.

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