so definitely there should be a part of the plea to go and also and that should. be healed for the verdict to be overturned but this doesn't mean that the court should initiate peace process but the initiative should come from the recently himself isn't it no matter what some of our colleagues say in the sand they will that are. those letters are not based on the ladder or the spirit of the constitution and the law we can talk about some of the ceiba clemency should always be based on the will of the person who is convicted militias unities the debate in them and i don't want to go too much into legal mc the details but this is interesting for me as a lawyer so i'll do it by mulu let's say a presidential president pardons a person without a pardon at the same time they convict. this prison and even though he's granted. what happens and the president gives.

this means that the stain of the criminal record is still there so this would mean that the president has violated this person's desire to achieve. but in other words the president has intervened in the process of doing this for reasons so i think from the legal point of view this would be wrong to do let's go back to quote unquote and some other people who are. in prison. there's one thing i'd like to say in shadows and is that. we should ask ourselves why do we have such a big number of people in prison in general what do we really need. in the twenty first century to have this many people convicted. but when i just started working as president. we had about leave one million people in the cousin in

prison who wanted one million. during my presidency this number went. twenty percent is that it is now about eight hundred thousand to deal with the plan sometimes when i'm wrong. so he must not he was not the only person like you presidential pardon to call me and i'm sometimes surprised about a person steals are so full and gets two years behind bars or a person goes fishing this is a natural response i knew what and he caught it so inefficient and he was in prison for a year and a half it doesn't make any sense person does something go between and a minister if. a crime of. peace put behind the glorious and here is he returns and he is

a full blown criminal by the time the other that probably will still go this is a problem in having to endure a system and then we have to spend a lot of money at the trying to integrate him back into society. so it's a really big problem for the government and it is not limited to quite a cost of living to. other solicited people because it is related to a great number of people who are in the prison door but if we talk about this specific case. law i would like to give you a clear answer to your question the answer. to your question about holocaust you know others so it's no let me to use machinist on my answer to the previous question without the bardsley there will be no consideration of a pardon which was to mean anything there's a very important legal things here in the distant president this president that gives pardons. all youth those huge easy. knowledge and think killed in the crime so certainly must not again is very important precedents no

because he did not such does not acknowledge him to be guilty and case of course of course the thing was that he was actually not being able to get at this point without this on the almost all right since you are so much interested in this situation i will explain it to you i hope that our viewers are as much interested in those cases you are. this is based on article fifty of the constitution and the president cannot violate the constitution i hope you understand that but he has one year and you can have one you really now. that's a personal no but he didn't recognize he's guilty or not with you this is based on a presidential decree and i have always said that the president has the right to the should go against his own decree that you don't think this is a right thing to do in this specific case. there were serious arguments

you hear in english you're pretty damn. it the better the so got killed but this is not the point this is up to the president the question of where they're in that person has to recognize or not and so the president that he is. this is up to the president and the president can do this with his decree that's my answer to the little girl but if let's talk about something else reform really aren't the nature of the new since i saw some recent reports from the minister for real defense. in the rules on bullying in the or anywhere. situation has changed and. we're making progress. and. soldiers are being given this is a housing position and as for president look at the day before yesterday. and you mentioned twenty three trillion as the amount to be invested even more. and that's until the two thousand. and as the future prime minister was going to be

as tough and strict in talking to financial genius or is saying that. the army branch shows suspending the integration and so. i will be for i'll just force him to give me the money and you know. army should be above the education or on the contrary that education is about you know i mean this is serious and if. so i just said that we need to remove our army make it stronger and we need people who are looking well a lot of they didn't hear people who love their country and who know why they go to your miserable you're on the take this is why we tend to spend one is so much money in yuma also we realize that. practice is good we haven't made any huard you

work on this in the. period as the supreme commander in chief. and the georgian conflict was complex initiated by georgia demonstrated that we had to limit the votes of the weapon system. and you know when you just need to replace fifty or seventy percent of our equipment we need new markets new missiles. a.p.c.'s and so on those and we get into a lot of course. we should just throw money with wally that we should make sure that your suv quality from ours is advancing just a dream and if we see what's the reason there are problems. matter now as regards education education isn't as much of a priority as defense. you've mentioned twenty trillion.

until twenty twenty. four education annually. in rubles two trillion every year. so in other words it's about the same among the money. that actually we have achieved a lot in the past few years and when education is well i mean it. but only because of defense and security will always be a priority for our country gets and my priority if i continue working within the government. because i was there has been can we talk about army and. education is only a personal example it's not like it was so you must be interested. in army and education because just on the story my seventeen so that's a personal question now do you really think that every young man you know what to do a service in the army and so what's your opinion as

a parent about education before the show and are most of the city of the first let's talk about the army because this is a serious of our constitution if you give us military service is a duty for every citizen of the russian federation and that's just to just put the question of how you shouldn't perform in this duty we are currently to play with changing our system and i believe that we are doing the right thing in about six years. we should have been committed. with him he said that the level where eighty five percent at the least of putting at the pub our servicemen serve in the army on the contract and others in the fifteen percent are unstable starless for education now currently the situation is totally different i think the our servicemen are models and. we should have a professional army this is an absolutely normal situation. but the

same time we should also have. new people new ones who dedicate their lives to serving in the army and later when we develop them in the officers it. is up us and. others the security of the believe is. anyway this is a constitutional duty but we also have this system of higher education and there is a rule that if you go to university do you must have a way to finish your education if a person and there are two different views in the two different positions and the situation parents and students i think that this is right to some generals think that this is wrong and should be changed and my position is very simple i think we need high skilled professionals and in some cases most of making a break in the education process is very disruptive it's not only in some cases

because if we take a look at the education system in our country is our system is somewhat that you access. when you have we have more than one thousand and one hundred fifty universities when you are still. in the soviet union that we had six hundred universities at the pool with another with this doesn't mean that we should close half of our universities but we should take a closer look at our education system and make sure its quality is caused by let's go back to the standard sized exam i discussed the situation with my son was a standardized test and what he said to them did not sound very convincing to me because he does know the way he can be any other way. i used to know different systems and he said it's terrible it's terrible and takes so much learning well that's normal and ok i know that our system used to be different

and now we have this system what i think about this new standardized is i think on the whole me that this is a very morning. good but it shouldn't be the only one testing it but i mean when both of these standardized tests alone and there's not who are they should be other equality says you must. want to certain areas that are some for humanity some for instance other but where it is standardized tests cannot be used this way and the right experience would guess that it was so that you would be standardized tests to use our main policy but you don't actually when i talk to teachers off record they all told me that the standardized test is good paschal in a remote region so for russia they said it was in our children are able to enter. prestigious schools in the moscow and some leagues in. in the past and was impossible other i don't see so we should develop the system of the standard and in

some cases we should complemented with other tests that should depend and which universities he's going to like. there are several options we're still discussing of course you're interested in what i eat their words to look with legal settings. a lot economics so he's undecided you. talk a lot today about what is yet to be done about things that have not completed yet and speaking of the last september last year you made an announcement that you're going to be president and then there was election which was not really considered to be fair though i mean you've got might like to ask here but what's your attitude to those are people who went to see these. protests do you believe that many of the people were your vote there is those your supporters who were supporting your rhetoric. is that a situation is possible that if you knew how many people would go to protest in

september you would you go say something different because it's called the look see what i said is a temper was not that i'm going to resign as your president i said that considering the current political situation it would be better to do something differently and this is what we did in no matter what some people say you some people may like it some. don't like it. up to you whether you like it or not with this system worked it was a directive. and we should have achieved the political result we expected and we received much support from and the majority of our citizens now those people who demonstrated on both lot in a square and prospects with as president i think well of all our. the people of russia these are eagerly have their position that the people who

protested lusti this huge against you have used the words i respect their rights this is perfectly normal i don't quite agree with some of the things they said from this stage just because my political position is different we should the but the people who months that who gathered there to declare their position i respect that which is inclusive of the. majority the absolute majority of those people who behave this law abiding citizens then other when it came and they said we don't play like that you can do. all these people say this is also not. but so to answer your question i think that did issuing it that way because the decisions that were in the announced in september they were supported by political and we know that. the foundation of the truth of the of those to believe this is not just something that we went into we did that because we were after a specific political result of the switch and now we have

a mandate yes we respect minority which we should also respect majority in this is how democracy works around the world cup and decisions are made by a majority of people each in their mandatory for the rest of the country and the numbers of this minorities were you impressed by it if yes i was impressed with. the time and the quantity of people this was the first mass is the rally. but in recent history this means the government should not ignore those people and the government should respect that and i think we did that i think we did respond and we will continue to respond. at the very beginning he said that those people who came out in those years and each of those people could say that i'm a free man i had a feeling that people would go to the squares and they did it because they felt one freedom that's they or not you are. not in the freedom of choice they say that

their vote went and that the election was. later on. dissatisfaction with the election and the doubts about the election of maybe they are. freezing and we saw that in other regions of russia. go to some extreme measures of someone went on a hunger strike. for a service that's very. i would like to ask you. do you understand the feelings of these people who are ready to go to three measures who are really. second question what are the recent years have you ever felt desperate. i mean you know but he didn't i'm the president and i have no right to be motional. sometimes i'm.

glad i'm there with their slipperiness that i knew it was the most important when i feel sad i just emotionally exercise and then i make a decision if we knew if i don't like it now as regards the election but it was meaningless. what people think about elections. changed the general level of a political culture has increased we have. to get over it and the government should respond to that i like the family that it all happened this means that everything has to change. starting knowledge we can duck the elections and wait when the results are presented people should not feel that they have been cheated yes there thought. i can tell you straight away you. knew there was no serious electoral fraud that got in this to get on the big scale the results we

get there reflect the choice of the people but you wouldn't think at the mall situation is minor situation if one gets stolen this irritates people in the past this never happened in the ninety's we don't have a sense of a situation where the line is going to this is leaving us now which means we have to change our laws we have to introduce new technology and so forth but if you actually you know recently i made a decision. polling stations for women with this special good teacher told me she was. count ballots. i can tell you frankly that because of the economic crisis i allowed to finance ministry to deal with this process of polling stations with the digital machines until twenty fifteen because this was a lot of my. any it actually is that's who the billions the tens of billions and we decided to use this money for social programs but even if you had we know what they

done we would have. doubts and questions because you can ologies and you think we will do that now to get along with webcams and so on but now as regards protesters first of all they have a right to do that. it's just going to the question of whether this protest is genuine because so there is also a well calculated political situation or i don't blame those people in the us but some of those things reminded me of the doctor of the hollywood and people who did that but he. actually do. goals here i think. all goals have been achieved and you people are among the people that all those people are now getting their mandates as deputies

of the duma brutally well this is a perfectly normal as long as it is within the law this is my position for if it's for cuts and also you don't really believe in the large projects to take place but . there were. those province stations where. one deputy won and the other polling stations where there were no present the other so that there was some sort of clear breakdown depending on the deputy and that's not about a grant was going to vote on. the going or luxury. in recently more than elections you can't you see too many people just because you always have the exit in the whole. so you pull somebody gets fifty percent illegals in exit. baldwin and then when you put i do another person get seventy percent this will never work but you're right this is just and it was written to what i said when you

did you don't we sheena's you can have a much less much less electoral fraud that's why we need to provide digital machines for all the polling stations. and this is what the government the president and the parliament should do with the next two years you should have this kind of situation where there can be no doubt or minimal. elections just but in some situations those artificial they're there for political reasons in the video because a person say goes into the board on the record of the me does not create agree with that and then they go on a hunger strike but if you go on a hunger strike first and after that you go to court this looks like political activities. such as. to follow up this. theme of protest meetings we're only talking about politics i think that i was well

you're a politician number one in our country that's just me also shout about the economy and social issues we should talk about. so returning to the direct election of a governor you seem to find the procedure of registering political parties you mentioned all these were opposed in your speech in the election. in the presidential election. so when did you come to these decisions that this was dipping into and how are they related to the protests that took place in blocking this clear yeah. you showed some good on both lending you my very first address i thought of you and your i started forming our political system to deal with the cause of the group and i did that every year you guys the and every year i heard. i think some people would say oh no that's not a know it's a well no it's too little too late is that all the time so you should change everything i should go to straight away other people said no but don't change

anything the everything's works fine it's all in my thighs it's it isn't that you don't fix it if it's not broken and this has been my position i would change the rules of the political system every year the muscling for a month simply i provided access when you see the media for political party is a book i look forward to the electoral threshold in your poll number which is for the state duma elections. because this new system. for. tauriel elections and. other things about ten points and i mean every year at a certain point i think this was about a year ago when i felt of course that would be the final move should it be stronger because the system is ready now going to go. good at that i was here frank with you about a year ago when i said. former governors. and i really

felt that way because i really big country like russia with many difficult situation there is this danger this threat and it is still there your duty but at a certain point i realized that people do want to elect their own officials and i said. in this way you will have left. the truth to remove this responsibility from. the federal government and now but i did so we will learn to separate what is proper of politicians from demagogues and now we will implement this model just because our society is really we have reached into use the other i said this earlier and i said the same thing if you lose a girl me but this is. progress towards democracy you will not. bring us into care because our society has changed and that. the whole not speaking about

the government there is a new combination with you mr putin and i were talking about chess now ok well that's how you just usually say. since you are sort of swapping. and you know like to move. over to. the prime minister or the post of the leader of united russia so that mr putin is getting rid of this board the burden of being a leader of unpopular party. what are you going to do to become the party's leader or not really become the member of it or are you going to join the party so is it leader and member or leader not members. but. yet here you are into ok marianna it's not like larry shuffling it was not like gasoline chairs i realize that wouldn't go there analysts. can we use this kind of expression but we

will put in became president after hearing serious political struggle and he received a lot of support from the political people not supported him there would have been no castling there's no reshuffling us up with that lapel the same applies to the office of prime minister is that you have to achieve it you have to be voted in by the state duma the last of course. the u.s. input is associated with the united russia i support them they support me. it's now as regards your question about what will happen but at the instant hardy wise yeah so in the party. i don't understand when people see that united russia is not living up your party of gloss of because they guard fifty percent of the vote in the city duma and this is going to from them by all the opinion sort of sort of their approval rating is. what forty last year in the sense that all the

other parties are at the summit much less popular so it's the biggest party the most popular party but i'm not saying it's a perfectly good has many defects like any other part of the power to those but more than that in the media this party has to speak to changes world so the future of united russia will speak to you i think. it is. in the wrong. sense riskless the new concern. because what's going on the power of that which we should have in our country we don't have a social democratic proper social democratic party in russia and it's actually bad it's a shame because that on the usually you have to flank conservative centrist horses and social democrats on the other playing with you you can get on the perhaps. these and we will develop as we implemented our new political reform and develop bartlett system so it's perfectly obvious for mean. we simply russia consider what

tacitus as a centrist conservative force the venue needs the needs of a large number of people are there people in a lot of money at the used market to dislike or hate this body and this is perfectly normal but you have a right when you have a left wing. now as for me personally if i receive such a proposal to become the leader of the party. but it's unlikely they will answer the current chairman said that this is his proposal i will not reject. and one more thing i think that any party leader should lead with the party because if for some reason he is not a member of the party in the money and they had a certain point. he will divide himself as the front of the party of those nasty this may be possible some situations say when the spurs.