you know welcome back you're watching r t here's a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest stories the guessing game is over president to get a fan prime minister putin could swap jobs after that point twelve presidential election pledging to continue the path of modernization economic stability it's a way. israeli army is on the move jubilation over the tell us a bit quickly turns to violence in the west bank and it worries that israel may withhold tax as punishment. and europe's top man shal figures wham for inevitable greek default that's according to a report that calls lining markets and spreading fears of

a double dip recession. but more on what saturday's announcements mean for russia in the latest edition of our interview show spotlight. well see british scientists i said sometimes let's go. to the. markets why not. why not what's really happening to the global economy in cars a report on our. hello again a welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. i'll do another and today we're talking about the presidential race the decades

biggest political mystery has been finally so glad to report and pick up his presidential bid being nominated by the ruling you diet this. country and many of the leaks that caused the conflict inside track down as the nomination is vast by the current president dmitry medvedev the last week agreed to become the new prime minister if putin and that is russia party are telling us that means russia's top political elite is unlikely to change to meet the next six or even twelve years will kill russia change what do we have to expect from the shop full time then off to december and author 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 nation's he did a whole lot and a political columnist nature about it so let's start with what retreat medvedev had

to say. i believe it would be right for the conventions of support the candidacy of let's do it from in the presidential election. was i. know what. they suppose i mean so i don't have to explain what kind of experience and i thought he left a mark with an ounce. thank you for your skillful and i'd like to see something else just might rumors that there's been a split and when. i can see that this was a well thought through decision. tree. mr babich mr harper thank you very much for joining us on the show welcome to spark my well is this it so do we know the name of the next russian president exists would you say actually i think we're already know it was the name of the nats

trashing president and now it's trashing our prime minister but you know i think it's not due to the reasons and some experts say i think there was a whole has been over twelve years in public politics has proven to be a real leader of a new russia rushing to be has almost doubled in a little slow years while social stability and. development have been achieved so there are good grounds for continuing these. way of conducting both foreign and domestic policy and most russians do really support and stand up to do dude mutually agree that this is it. the intrigue intrigue is now no longer there i would see never say you're sure especially in russia because. 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 voting report. according to truth of the changes the constitution the russian president will be elected for six years he could be in there for two terms so do you think that let me put it will be there for the next twelve years or so. we cannot be so sure now we're now we're talking about about six years well i think the russian elite since ninety nine to one has been pursuing apes first team is political stability to keep power and money. the second is still 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 i'm called keep running with. yet another term i think the choice sure there are some hard times ahead so the time to share in internal politics for ensample russia and for the war you know the euro groundling lots of other things europe is russia's largest economic partner so when europe gets gets a call that russia will be also sneezing so all busily they opted for a safer bet not during the best of time so even in the third 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 by by american standards are not or is the difference in russian point i think in russia it's really different and first of all the basic

reason about you know not only in russia about in other. contras the most high valued commodity is stability and economic development and i think that one of the major achievements of reports and 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 because of the clown show goes on in a way and in this case i think it does. no matter where the country will hold his paws as a president for two consecutive terms or whether the will change with very for any other. and the other person who maybe we don't know but the basic idea is that both russian and it as my colleague and russian general public are interested in stability and spread of elements so they're able to get used to these people are experts are predicting a hard times for for

a world economy for russian economy in the coming years first of all i like i like to know your reaction how may the the markets react to this news that we're hearing today and is putting stress to the middle east. is it going to be hard i mean. economically. oh i think the markets will react positively because the explosion steam everywhere in russia so the fact that the petrol is back and marketed percent you know when one hundred percent of our kind of percent of our he's back one hundred thousand so that's good news for markets but he's facing hard times but i will say this of all the western politicians western politicians including vice president u.s. vice president joe biden who came here made it very clear that they would prefer to deal with medvedev. a victory on a quarter inch who is going to meet our president today may also be

a little disappointed because he also will bet on me to be a friend all his talk and call their way in long normally so all busily there is a certain 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 as western policy towards russia sometimes the markets see one thing and the british and say it's quite why i was asking you about the hard times because because putin did promise i'm screwed now to to resign russia's g.d.p. to a level of seven percent go out and the same on the same day finance minister in putin's government mr goulden 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 how are these two promises compatible with your own ideas this is a misquotation really i mean it was the who didn't i mean cauldrons it's misquotation because quillan said absolutely the opposite i think it's going to be

a lot of the kid 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 economy and our exports are much higher than our important thought as a cause that's the cancer that adds to the global g.d.p. . we know the country of it has a 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 possible collapse of the whole euro zone if greece is followed by spain italy and other conscious you know european union or major. partner paul saw. the signs 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 both three years ago almost caused by irrational relatively easily not only in economic terms but in social demographic and political terms so russian are the pillars of russian political system. well i guess and these. are the global economy is going to have a lost decade but russian economy is going to develop when you're really you're really only said 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 higher prices he gave a lot to country economically so will he be able to give as much in his next. well i would agree with. what you'll see comic policy all grizzlie have 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 won't have a major problem we've seen it many times in europe and in other places and certainly i think that. kind of missed grace enough for hard times not not for the best of perhaps both of you today in the studio. 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 doman december nor the presidential election so what about the turnouts are people going to to use their legs to park to the it's in the police stations to vent do you expect a high turnout when medvedev is leading they really punished him for the elections and later which is running for president where people say well what difference will it make. well i think. it will depend on the propaganda strategy of the

board of the state and their position will use their positioning 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 your good it and can be used by you know of by the state the way it was so basically. i i i will not be surprised if that turned out it is not so bad. political authority i plan to grow here of that depends on propaganda much because the russian electorate is in russian people are much more experienced and they're not naive at all and they're not good subject to propaganda they have seen so much in their last few decades so they know quite well who to elect see political analyst eager to cough and retreat by the spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us don't. in

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for the next president russia after the current president meets with the dead yet. proposed him at the. congress of the united. russia ruling party so today we see we're facing an upcoming reshuffle of the time so the prime minister is going to become the present president agreeing to become prime minister and this looks as if it's the side really at least among the russian political elite so gentleman do you think that this decision that and that was announced today actually was so you can no longer you know maybe maybe even back in two thousand and seven what would you say but wasn't initially planned to go on this way because i don't think initial plan because russian politics doesn't include very sophisticated scams 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's popular both with small business arrived business ordinary people actually extensively along rushing to the poor regions of the north caucasus really supported them people in the not courses courses are really grateful that he plans to fire this region and contributed a lot to the quality of living there and also good is very popular among young people people maybe who children when he got into power one who went to kindergarten and he's popular among them and there's a future electorate in this context i think there's no. plan plan

a troll that goes as a goes up wouldn't really proven to be a national leader and a little bit of has already also contributed. and so now we are going to see another six or maybe two consecutive presidential terms twelve years and i think this change is going to develop or the way it as it did before dimitri . please i would not write playing such a role the picture of course despite all the once well let me give you an example with the north caucasus indeed kitchener was specified there is no war one that's a huge achievement but terrorist activity in neighboring pakistan is huge it's much worse than the ninety's the same thing in the year so basically there are the problems never disappear the instability spills all to other places and that's why i don't think the 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 see the more conservative variant will still isn't. clear what extent it was the west policy or the western elite never quite accepted the russian elite as a spot basically it was hostile we've seen all these alternatives to all ruled so to have still gas pipelines all these things joe biden saying that he would not be hey peter see what you are putting back and graham and so in this situation the most who who. would makes you happy i don't think elections in you know the country's mission in russia it was i really was making me can buy nappy roulette and it was i was really didn't know we were. exactly the opposite effect into in the one hundred five and might want to have it i think it contributed. contributed to the decision that was taken to date yeah but i'm not quite sure that violinists are smart and still wish to become the new president and

to do it this way you know provocative russian elite in terms sold off on. faster sound 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 frozen and you know it had been poured over the rest of the lid is always a bird although for russian leader as it is still russian public is pretty conservative not hostile but conservative towards the true intentions of washington and brussels and many russians basically dear of the worst is to turn russia into the colony or importing from russian natural resources and exporting their dollars in euro's so in this case being popular with the lid is a not an asylum for any russian leader oh well the politician party with the west

to meet right now he's getting ready to to to to go into a real political sequel and go well with the modernization of the country from mr putin today made in the other very important now xmen and let's hear a quote right now. thank you 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 but it's the limit and with the parliamentary elections coming in december i'd like to ask russian citizens to support the united russia party we did. not do if you did you. know you would i'm convinced to become prime minister continue to spell really modernize our society. both booted and move this and later method of press secretary mr peskov

after the congress was. closed for today he said that there will be. a reshuffle of the of the government we need a major reshuffle 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 who will keep their seats well i would say that i did a question on yourself to be less conservative in terms of person now. than. i 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 thought he had to. change the prime minister several times but he didn't change the minister is this wise to stay the same or they're all just met so some small changes so in general we did it for cns 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 are counting faces because i agree with igor on the one hand russian public 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 these daily not to be too popular with the west that will make him a little bit will be very suspicious to his own audience and not to alienate the west because there may in danger russia's you know integration to what putin is coming back is likely to come back in less than the used would be a new putin who should we expect something new from the new presidency if we had to put it in terms of internal politics in terms of economic policy in terms of the

general mood in the country. most of all you know any politician is the only actor. has to reinvent himself to stay popular with probably a decade spars butler ninety ninety nine when fortune came into power first as prime minister and then president. actually was. all for securing what was left of the soviet union stabilizing the country 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. in russia and 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 proven him to be a person who is ready to change with the country of the country changes he also changes we have seen primaries in the united russia russia party primaries which i could be different from what is usually understood under this roof in the american experience because you know how full of. so-called poor people's front gets into duma 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. do more of it is a long one and shameful for russian parliament you know this is very important scientific pushing is reinventing himself as a political leader and he feels the transfer of russian society very well. it is

a very good remark and there are also differences that would seem to be very proud . and when he spoke in that congress and when he was saying that that we do have a civil society in 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 problems and not party members and some sort of what do you believe me if you think this do you think this is just that propaganda that you mentioned or what putin is really trying to to become and you pretty well yes and not because on the one hand i agree that whatever putin is a very capable politician and he's very capable to change his only deals 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 into primary experience 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 to be thank you thank you very much dmitry and just to remind you that dimitri babich are needed across a lot of 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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