we're here in the studio with me he is the moscow correspondent for the christian science monitor adrian pap's in cambridge is a lecturer in politics at the university of kent and in london we cross to jonathan steele he is the international affairs commentator for the guardian all right gentlemen this is cross talk i mean she can jump in anytime you want but first i shall want to walk us through about what happened at united russia's convention that's very clear the guessing game is officially over prime minister vladimir putin is said to run for president in two thousand and twelve election his candidacy endorsed of the united russia party convention by incumbent president. so if you're going privilege and you're having the proposal to have the electoral lists of the party united russia i'm to do some party work on condition of good performance in the parliamentary elections and my readiness for practical work in government i believe it will be right for the congress to support the candidacy of luck in your plan to not go for a new presidential election the announcement and speculation about

last use of the chairman of the russia party right now we have a couple of comments here from adrian pap's who joined us shortly he's a professor of politics the university of kent we spoke earlier he has these comments to contribute. one thing that surprises. run of the program selection thing i would expect sometime what is surprising is that the president has agreed to. take surprise i think since july. given up for a few surprises and. he was from central. men to. return to job interview think it's clearly a shift in strategy compared. to strive to implement. try to strengthen the private sector to strengthen into legal institutions a civil society talking about for instance. providing wealth i think present the future president. when he is elected. it's more state. to state. economic development. with a lot. to expect a major shift i think there might be a slight change of tone. in the past. use some rather. strong language the times remember the security conference in two thousand and seven when he announced american. family i think over time. probably has changed he will be more pra

and professor of politics at the university of kent dr adrian pap's says the u.k. and russia are currently facing many similar economic difficulties which together they could overcome. britain and russia suffer from a lack of diversification just as britain depends too much on financial services the rest of the pen's too much on natural resources like oil and gas so birth economies need to diversify but it is not just a national issue for this is also a global issue we know that a huge imbalance is there's lots of hot money circulating that money needs to be channeled into productive activities in britain in russia and elsewhere and i think there is a mutual benefit from operating in areas like technology where britain can certainly help russia explore some of its natural resources we know that from energy and other areas but also you know russian investment in britain is also important to all sorts of areas like civil aviation even the car industry where the two countries couldn't visit some form of technological exchange you need to build a high tech money factor