regards to the arab spring all right thank you very much very interesting to hear your thoughts steve levine from the new america foundation thanks for having me. regulation has been held against a background of massive street rallies in russia's largest cities but as a member of the protest movement for a fair election he. told r.t. the opposition demonstrators are in the minority the result didn't come as a surprise and obviously most of the people share the same scene of the great russian but no revolution is worth of a child of charles steger and i hope it will not be blood on the streets but obviously we don't agree with this result and unfortunately we are in many a minority that you but you have to consider every minority and this is the only way to democratic country three last months sure deadspin is civilized society with the law it's all we can go somewhere and it can grow the only thing that last that this it was it was the one solid lead and a little earlier we heard from international election observer john berryman who praised the use of web cameras to monitor the vote and say

steve levine from the new america foundation a public policy institute and think tank says that love you need to put in will maintain a hard line against outside threats he's going to maintain the image of an outside in circle moment think i have bad wishes for russia but it served a purpose he served a very constructive and productive purpose for putin meaning that he was able to say and do things that putin for credibility reasons and just because it didn't suit his personality. that he would have been unable to say for example could you have a pageant. form in the silicon valley and sitting down and having tea with a bunch of technologists going on to washington and sitting down for a cheeseburger you know been increasing scrutiny in washington. i think you know behind closed doors and will retain reasonable relations with the united states with nato and with the rest of the world but that in public he's going to he's going to be he's going to maintain this friction he's going to be a troublesome character. lashing out at the west in public for example he will continue to do this