live from moscow this is our take is kevin owen here tonight with our top stories from all of you with the top job intrigue and yesterday president the better found prime minister putin revealed that they could swap jobs up to the twenty twelve presidential election on saturday pledging their time they will continue to work for russia. also the week emotions running high as palestinians bid for statehood at the u.n. with standing ovations in new york but clashes at the border in the west bank. a finish priest speaking out against a chechen terrorists website finds himself in disgraced with his plight ignored by the mainstream media. and greek default is inevitable and top officials know it big

reports reveal the recession could go even deeper with us. for more on what sunday's announcement by poaching rivette of mean for russia next in the latest edition of our interview show spotlight on the air just half a minute ahead. wealthy british style to some extent that's not tied to the times. it's not the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is cause a report on our. poll

again a welcome to spotlight the interview show on our t.v. i'll do we are going to do we're talking about the presidential gregg's the decades biggest political mystery has been finally so glad of that for to pick up his presidential bid being nominated by those willing to unite this. country for many of the leaks that cause conflict inside the time them as the nomination is backed by the current president to retrieve the data 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 geneva next six or even twelve years. to russia what do we have to expect from the shop full time then all through december and all through marsh two thousand and twelve when the presidential election will take place we'll be discussing with political analyst and research that you have been through the world economy and its national glaciers heated hall

and a political columnist michel babbage 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 looks in infancy and in the presidential election. was . no what a terrible i just made up a nice applause means i don't have to explain what kind of experience in authority i didn't want and how it's. thank you for your skillful and i'd like to see despite rumors that there's been a split within. i can see that this was a well thought through decision. mr haha thank you very much for joining us on the show welcome to the spotlight is

this it so do we know the name of the next russian president exists 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 reasons and some experts say i think there was in a portion of the 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. the development have been achieved so there are good grounds of for continuing the. way of conducting wars of foreign and domestic policy and most russians who really support this plan to do dude you tweeted me that this is it. the intrigue intrigue is no no longer then 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 voting. according to true to the changing of the constitution the russian president will be elected for six years you can be there for two terms so do you think that when you put it will be there for the next twelve years or. we cannot be so sure now we were never there we're talking about about six your opinion well i think the russian elite since ninety nine to one has been pursuing apes first team is political stability power of mine. the second is to integrate this new leap into the western political wooden 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 and i want to in so they stand. in general we'll see how the situation develops i think the choice of putting in all of that the condom called keep running with mildred affair so you know improve your another term i think the choice sure there are some hard times ahead so the time to check in turning point for him sound for russia and for the war you know the euro grumbling a lot 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 visibly the opted for a safer bet not during the best of times i was even in the united states we're 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 well it's different in russian plant i think in russia it's really different and first of all the basic reason or perhaps you know not only in russia i bought another saw the conscience 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 concho goes on in its way and in this case i think i don't. matter whether you will hold his post as a president for two consecutive terms or whether they will change with very for any other. any other person who maybe we don't know but the basic idea is that both russian of the it 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 experts are predicting hard times for a world economy for russian economy in the coming years so first of all i'd like i like to know your reaction how may the the markets react to this news now that we're hearing today and the end is putin's first to the middle east. is it going to be hard i mean. economically oh i think the markets will react positively because there is putin steam everywhere in russia so the fact that the parent is back and all. of you know we one hundred percent i mean one hundred percent of our he's back and risen so that's good news for markets but he's facing hard times and i will say this about 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 wanting to get different now he's talking to a lame young woman in seoul visibly there is a 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 say one thing and the british and say it's quite different why i was asking about the hard times because because putin did promise i described now to two reasons russia's g.d.p. . to a level of seven percent and the same on the same day finance minister includes government minister could it be said that the next decade is going to be lost because of world g.d.p. growth people some are even expecting a crisis coming and how are these two promises comparable right well yes this is

a nice quotation i mean it was good and i mean cauldrons i mean it's fair it's misquotation because i couldn't said absolutely the opposite thing he said it's 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 the four years at least so the context is the trasher is an exporting acquire and go exports are much higher than our imports so there's a core that adds to the global g.d.p. of the country that 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 pose the collapse of the whole euro zone if greece is followed by spain italy and other large conscious you know european union as our major. partner but 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 well three years ago was passed by russia relatively easily not only in economic terms but it's social demographic and political terms so russian are the pillars of russian political system. well i guess some of these contexts. the global economy is going to have a lot of decay but russian economy is going to develop leisure if you're young. 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 and in his next to. i would say agree with. rich and second on a 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 and we have seen it many times in europe and in other places and certainly i think that the time then was bracing up for hard times and not for the best of times both of you today in the studio well are expressing the opinion that that there were there will be no will we will not be facing any surprises either on the elections to parliamentary election i can stay do moves not the presidential election so what about the turnout are people going to to use their legs to walk to the seats into probably stations to vent do you expect a high turnout that went missing there is leading the really promising to elections

and lead to putin is running for president or 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 to 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 bullets and can be used by you know of by the state the way it was so basically. i i will not be surprised if the turnout is not so bad. who could climb to greer. depends on propaganda much because the russian electorate is in russian people are much more experienced and they're not and evil tall and they're not good subject to propaganda they had seen so much in their last few decades so they know quite well who to elect see political analyst. and to be prepared the spotlight will be back

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to meet the bar bitch and we are discussing the latest news the russian politics and prime minister has. agreed to become the next prez. russia due to run rather for the next president russia after the current pres the nutriment very . 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 president during to become prime minister and this one looks as if it's decided on 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 know maybe maybe even back in two

thousand and seven what would you say what wasn't initially planned to go on this way i don't think the initial plan because russian politics doesn't include very sophisticated so you see it goes as a girls putin has proven to be a really good president because they've. 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 raj business ordinary people actually extensively all rushing to the poor regions of the north caucasus really supported them people in the not cause of caucuses are really grateful that he placed a fire of this region and contributed a lot to the quality of living there and also putin is very popular among young

people people maybe who children when he got into power 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 or troll that goes as a girl's. well putin has really proven to be a national leader and that if was all that also contributed a lot 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 is the day before parliamentary. please i would not write playing such a role in picture because despite all the children's 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 things the same thing in him so basically the problems never disappear

the instability spills all to other places and that's why i don't think that this decision was taken a long ago because i think the kind of how to react to new challenges every week well i think one of the reasons why i would see the more conservative variant was chosen. to a large extent it was the west policy of the west in the lead 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. what you were pushing back and graham and so in this situation the first one who will go woo hoo. what makes you happy i don't think elections in you know the countries bush in russia it was i really was making me combine happy rule where it was regional or where. exactly the opposite effect to and of undivided might want

to have it i think it contributed. contributed to the decision that was taken to date. and i'm not quite sure that biden is a smart answer to wish. because of the new president and to do it this way it will provoke a russian elite in terms of your defensive stance but i think the general result was that the west has been hostile there is no time table 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 that being poured over the rest of the lid is always a bird although for russian leader is still russian public is pretty conservative not hostile but conservative towards the true intentions of washington and brussels and many russians suspect that the basic idea of the worst is to turn russian into

the colony or it's importing from russia natural resources and exporting their dollars in euros so in this case being popular with the lid is not an asylum for any russian leader i don't know what will the politician part do with the west to meet right now he's getting ready to to to to go into a real political sequel and the one with the modernization of the country prime minister putin today made in the other very important announcement and let's hear a quote right now. but not to express my gratitude to you for supporting my candidacy to run for president it's a great honor group. 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 with. you. was really just i'm convinced to become prime minister continue to snarly

modernize our society. both putin and medvedev and later made their lives press secretary mr prescott. after the the the. plans for today said that there will be a reshuffle of the government 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 governments who have the ministers who will keep their seats well i would say that mediator pressure on yourself would be less conservative in front of a person now voting republican. 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. change the prime minister several times but he didn't change the meanest this is the surprise the stay the same or all just met so some small changes so in general. midriff is seen as a sort of a personnel 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 there that tandem faces because i agree with igor one of our 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 these daily not to be too popular with the west that will make him a little bit to 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 huge time would be

a you put it should we expect something new from the new presidency of the head putin in terms of internal politics in terms of economic policy in terms of the general mood. most of all you know any politician as an actor has to reinvent himself to stay popular with the public has a decade spars back in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine when fortune came into power first as prime minister and then president. that actually was. all of 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 then generally the quality of living in russia has

been improving but now the rain huge 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 as the country changes he also changes we have seen primaries in the united russia and russia party primaries which are a good front 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 with them and they want to see them in state duma that is a long one. 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's it is a very good remark and i will also notice that today that putin seemed to be very proud when he spoke in that 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 on the ruling party is going to run from a not funny movie sense of self-worth do you believe that literally do you think this do you think this is just of that propaganda that you mentioned quarter where putin is really trying to to become and you pretty well yes and not because on the one hand i agree that about him or putin is a very capable politician and he's very capable to change his own a.d.'s 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 he would like to be thank you thank you very much dmitry and just to remind you that dimitri babich a leading scofflaw political analyst and columnist were my guest on the show today we discuss the latest political news from russia and that's it for now from all of us here spotlighted will be back with mortars 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 today and take you to.