joining us now is alexander lebedev, publisher of the independence.ou for joining us on bloomberg. i would like to get your thoughts on july 1, on constitutional reforms. what is your take on this? will this go through, or will this allow vladimir putin to stay in power for life? goxander: i think it will through. i know most of the criticism of the world press goes into the fact that a referendum will in powerin to stay until 2036. but what is not mentioned is that the parliamentary competence is raised a lot. morell probably go to a political system based on divisions of powers. and far from the russians, which will go to the referendum, do not know that it is about putin rather than anything else. if they want to let the president stay in power for another 16 years, let them do that because i do not think that heavily regulated by the russian tv channels. francine: you think this is a good thing because it would have more checks and balances, or would it enable the president to do more reforms of the economy? well, the leader generally stays in pow