other hand she has stood up and taken brave stances and russia, you're not allowed to mention alexei novotny'sood up and confronted putin on that, and remember, everybody knows it's her father the mayor of st. petersburg was putin's big mentor. but she did do that, and she is trying to push the envelope as far as she can. do you see any currency in that at all? >> i do. it presents a moral dilemma for anybody thinking about russian elections and thinking about whether to vote in russian elections. i wouldn't vote in russian elections because no matter how you cut it it is a farce by voting. at the same time, what he is doing is breaking sort of the mono on the me of the public space and it is an affront to the monopoly that the kremlin has on any kind of conversation. i think she is trying to push it as far as she can. the fact that it's been done by arrangement of the kremlin and the fact that she is succeeding some of the support makes it highly problematic, but it's one of those thing, and that's part of what makes the experience of living in russia and the experience of living in a totalit