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guest is matthew. chance. the option is over but russia's main cities are looking forward for another week at least how fierce political debates massive street rallies began on sunday when vladimir putin supporters flooded moscow's main square more are scheduled for the coming days both pro and anti the action is sparking mixed reaction cleared a lot of reports who couldn't sit in protest for democracy as some of them were reflected in his electoral manifesto so is it a sign of growing political turbulence all rather a sign of consensus that well we're asking not that we have to have their political analyst one of the lot of you put his faces during his election campaign and the head of the european institute for democracy and cooperation. russia's december two thousand and eleven parliamentary elections took place amid serious accusations as

usual protest wasn't long in coming as crowns flooded the streets of russian cities demanding fair elections and liberal reforms noticing the. peaceful many analysts praised them as a rise of civic activist the prime minister putin and his allies to put them skeptically but didn't reject them entirely responded to some of the protesters demands in seven detailed articles widely seen as electoral ninety passed over. to show thank you very much for being with us. i wanted to ask about the news of the nouns and. concerning. present regrets you made in. the that the prosecutor general should inquire into the case of an esteemed so mean that. he will be

released from prison or what well that will be decided by the court so where i see you go but why was it announced on election day why now and is it somehow connected to to the campaign. to be quite honest as far as i am concerned as far as i understand mr it. is clearly building his way to the leader of. part of society and i think that fits his picture saying things about other koskie from the legal point of view it's all a quote that could decide whether the prosecution. was held in do. the legal requirements of the law so

i can't predict any outcome so then maybe the media would like i would like the issue of color of course key which seems to be. the point of headlines in the western media is the least problem that. is so important for the russian society. to say the very interesting thing you said that. who's living room and who no longer be president is is trying to become the leader of the liberal part of the russian society what. this is a very poor evolution of political life in russia because before you if you want to be in politics in russia all you have to think about is is to be closer to the president as possible to be closer to put it to be

a new clue or realist to learn what is you. know he's not trying to be constant would he rose trying to be sort of opposed to point to winning winning the vote of the society is is this a significant change that we will see i think it is because it's all signifies the russia's political life is changing and this is becoming close to what we. see in the west with special russian features and but as far as i am concerned i think that mr madrid it is dedicated to be in politics and that is clearly at least for the moment. as far as liberal protestors are concerned the worst in my opinion seems all chooses to ignore all disregard the fact that the way this thread protests sentiments are of different origin and the majority of process has to do with disaffection of people

that put him who started to move from yeltsin time stopped somewhere in the middle and they want to continue but the what i can say for the whole liberal opposition but at least for the leaders of the bailout in a square which are in the eyes of the majority of society the band crap of the ninety's they would like to turn back and so there are protests and protest and the majority of protest you wait. expect mr putin in his next term to. energetically attack such problems as immense social inequality because social state is not what we have now and of course he helps those who are in the verge of perishing which has never been done before but

he is not he hasn't touched this thing. origins which reproduce all the time these foundations for this such social inequality but in russia we can live but in a social state because all conditions are different from the west. anyway. victorious election campaign is over but the political activism is far from subsiding its called light demeanor has marred it. russians have demonstrated an unprecedented level of political engagement with an up to the presidential vote the biggest moment anti government releasing these receded sunday's election and more really as i get to come within the next five days we did supporters were the first to make their voice heard. over one hundred thousand people gathered on many ashen asquare below the kremlin walls away into the night after in the show results were

published to celebrate putin's weigh in where in the motional addressed his supporters race youth group and we have won in an open and fair battle but this wasn't just the election of the president it was a test of political maturity and independence and we have shown that nobody can impose anything on it's. the following morning show putin really had reason to celebrate he gained more than sixty percent of the vote which secuity him victory without the need for a second round two of the four other candidates in the presidential race sergey miron of and why do you. work week to congratulate the president elect however putin's nearest rival communist denied easier than if it was just over seventeen percent of the vote came out with criticism. this election was neither fair nor legitimate fear elections mean a fear of dialogue between the power party and the opposition with the ruling party

never took a step billionaire proper of who came in third in the voting took the results philosophically promising to stay in national politics the problem is not whether i'm personally disappointed or not it's our citizens who decide if they decide there have been no critical violations during elections that that is an objective reality. although the presidential election was described as the most transparent with all of the polling stations been equipped with cams they still were reports of violations the alleged irregularities are central to the post-election and to put in release question in the prime minister's landslide victory. we heard these various branches of the ask. who were put in actually was pretty ambiguous in his reaction to the mass opposition close on the one side he was

calling these people banner along and he accused them of being directly paid by by hillary clinton restart all the other side he published his his articles appealing to the middle class and trying trying trying to look good in the eyes of those of the angry angry citizens as we call them business in this isn't this sort of a contradiction you know not at all first of all we have to recognize that the leaders of the protest i mean the leaders. only more belies putin's supporters and that was the result of public polls shortly after those. public commitment infestations on the square the other week more goes no no no notice. but on the other hand let us talk a little bit about russian middle class. the social scientists and political

scientists also seem to ignore the fact that russian middle class is very different from the west there is no sign of russian middle class becoming so what the french call people. and the germans. but in the beginning of. middle class rise in the worst middle class was also very nationalistic even and patriotic let alone nice young service paid is the nation that was the motor of friendship. russian middle class was never revolutionary lenin who can't be denied political. feeling yet he immediately declare russian balls are reactionary oh you know.

i mean middle class you can't call me a liberal position roof that is it is reflecting the interests of russian middle class i know so many of the middle class or even richer who are white has always been who have always been for putin because of his national conservative stand also . really tried before and now to be a little bit liberal a little bit patriotic a little bit conservative. did everything work that is what a leader of a nation should be because president must be a president for all and of course everyone wants reform i think of our political system so it's not only the demand of liberal opposition it's i'm quite conservative but i am sick and tired of those party said cetera.

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technology innovation called the list of elements from around russia we've gone to the future or covered. welcome back to spotlight i'm just ruined that my guest on the show today is not really in the head of the european institute for democracy and cooperation and one of latin republicans campaign faces during his glorious victorious rather. election campaign literally well we can see that these seven articles on different issues published by your kind of the during his reaction campaign in different newspapers were sort of his election manifesto were

a program that he will start fulfilling on the seventh of march when we will be no greater because the president of russia and the federation so let's go step by step the first article i think it was in in his best year it was called russia is concentrating and question was addressing the middle class that you just talked about two minutes ago and he was promising a brighter future for the people and especially for the middle class do you consider this. has put an ounce or to the process as his as his effort to make friends with an opposition to school no i don't think so although it is addressed to the whole nation but i would like to tell our viewers that russia is concentrating this is a quotation from of our famous foreign policy chancellor

prince got in the middle of the century and it bears all the contents of this motto which is. which is you see. that russia must must do well on its. internal problems to be strong and this is the most important and more important even than out eric t.v. it's a bigger problem you were quoting intensively only to see sir. when you were here full upon your flat. a couple of years ago you were in the studio and you woke think out your story and so does that mean that you personally took part in formulating this. record. so you have one of your brewer favorite authors three years but i think you know. the. the sharpness of political life in written several months stimulated. thinking and

political sort and i would say that these political manifesto of mr putin has no. nothing has been known in the files because it's much deeper than all. in all regular and customary political slogans during the elections because all of these parts all these articles have drawn analysis from very far and trace the roots of our. problems. and so it reflects that putin and his team fully understand this seriousness the depth and this and the deep rooted ness of all this problems let me quote another article in the north to call our nationalism unionism recently because the entire putting was separating the ethnic

russians from other ethnic groups in russia and he even called them the state constituting nation the russians which as a matter of fact some are contradicts the preamble to the russian constitution so. do you approve of that i do and i applaud so you think we should change the constitution and we should return return to the point the reference of national ethnic nationality turned into the passports russian language russian doesn't mean necessarily ethnicity it's a state of mind as all serious decisions of the russian cause and history have mentioned because russians are those who are bearer of the national cultural code then you as me we lived in the soviet times and we remember bad guys from next door who said we are russian reside now you know more russian you are jewish. i never

said that but this one other child i didn't even understand what it was me i said manually and what the this was happening to look in your passport i mean. you are trying to emphasize that to say that practically all russians were and systematic which. not only symmetries was in fact true russian wife and soviet life. and it was a car that it was one of the car sped that club and played and used to play you know . there were many carrots and i was i wouldn't say i wouldn't say that was a real. which is spread by. our dissidents angrily but i would have lived my life and i only now being an adult and mature i now remember that some in my class of my class my mates were of different origin at that time we didn't even realize or didn't even

think about such type of my identification there is no do you know your typical shit to do you believe that it's possible. modern russia to build a society where every person who considers himself russian whatever is origin will be will be considered russian by the society as guys actually exist because russian it's not this is it's not inappropriate and he for the first time during interventions century he never mentioned russian people as. bearer of statehood because and culture because we are all citizens of russia but culture as a product of spirit is not produced by if there are no emirates culture there is an arab culture we as citizens of russia we promote

a better political system etc but tales and literature is composed only by cultural elation and reserve eat. and if you compare the russia's internal life russia has always been a multi country from the very beginning the famous russian historian clear chance to mention that contrary to the western europe where states where from the very beginning career oriented on the formation of the uni. monarch ethnic and confessional entities russia's team of russian pre-christian dreams was international. no question very important points of putin's manifesto the economic power of publishing where the mistake he prime minister.

described the dependency on the commodities of russia that has not been overcome the spidered was constantly repeated the goal of the government under putin. made with his presidency the article that explanations of the reason of the failure to overcome the the dependency can you and as one of the election faces explain it well during the olds and. what we watched it was. step by said the industry illustration of the country in. twelve years it's not twelve it's only eight and the other for its prime minister charge of the economy during these recent four years the percentage of commodity. in the budget has. now it's. less than thirty percent it's still and norma's figure so we have to move but certainly one

must. invest immense effort into first technologies and also can help in creating it. jumps all fulfilled people also on it also is investment into original russian territory so were exactly russian people were the main qualified personnel in all plants and so. when. the plans were down. they became. lupin. also creates problems without any accent on nationality if you invest into industry russia russia an engineer instead of selling. really your chain is.

going to move me to look for here is to become ingenious and their social status is improving as it harmonizes the relationship between and the engineer diploma and street wonder also for. teachers decision you know that very important fear is the the former international relations of russia and putin in an article in the moscow news he called the u.s. and the western allies all mentioned in the article foreign policy as the destabilizing force in the world does that worry you as one of the as one of the principal russian ambassador used in europe today. or with someone who did you know maybe not with this limits and paris but it's drawn a list. serve on the academic community are you worried about. who i

think the west and especially the united states have a lot to this illusion of russian society in these series of america's ports where we were drawn practically drugged and intoxicated. by the infighting corporate truck new sinking of the west the use. to the utmost the traditional old thinking and we watched how the the west absorbed. all these fears of. many centuries. russia and even known with moving the military infrastructure we know that the international law is undermined because. you know with the pretext the rich cannot persuade us there were aggressions on interference and in the mystical

lives so the security council resolutions were misused and. the foundation of post list into public international law is now. you know so vague and so we must see to it that there is some. legal system left for us otherwise. as far as i understand you though what was the worst those concerns you. put in. ok thank you very much that is the only reaction you i really think sincerely and in his manifesto you cannot find any desire for risky confrontations not only on the national scale that was my guest on the show today she's that of the european is busy for democracy and cooperation and one of their campaign phrases from that of a complete that circle of awards stay on r.t.

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