well sergey boco certainly thinks it does and so do these allies boyko in fact even told me in novosibirsk that he thinks that the smart voting strategy that not only has been advocating for the last few months is actually what got him poisoned because it's such a threat to putin's party and to the kremlin and it is true that smart voting has shown some success in the past for example in moscow city council elections last year when united russia lost around a 3rd of its seats but on the other hand i think it's worth saying you know smart voting may be smart but the kremlin is also smart and they have will have strategies to kind of hold on to power we've seen for example new parties running in these elections which critics say are supposed to split the opposition's vote and we just quickly if you can the voting starts today it will continue then to sunday so 3 days of voting why is that well this is a new thing that we've seen only so far in the vote on constitutional amendments that took place a few months ago and the electoral commission here in russia has said that it's just much more p