welcome back to worlds apart with russian philosopher and public intellectual alexander mr didden just before the break we started talking about the very peculiar relation that the russian people have with power and you stated that you believe that the russian people are in need and he. they have a historic need for a strong leader and i think. difficult to be argued with but i also think that there is a tendency on the part of the russian people to assume more responsibility for running for running their own country and i think at least from my perspective i can see the signs of it in many. years of our economy of our social life etc now you've argued that the asian eurasian civilization as you see it is based on very strict hierarchy on. rather than horizontal social organization and i think that may have been sustainable in you know you have the control of the media when you have very little transparency about what is going up in the governing circles but do you think that could be maintained in the information age i think that's informational is projection on the western europe con