supporters of russian opposition figure alexina valen they are gathering in a number of thirty to protest against the upcoming presidential election i t v it was done of joins me live now from a rally being held in central moscow eager good to see you once angering the demonstrators. while making the past hour or so the crowd has shrunken significantly in total around a thousand people have showed up calling for the boycott of the elections in march of the presidential election in march they're saying the vote is illegitimate since their candidate alexina valley has not been allowed to run now he is still serving a five year long suspended sentence. after he had been found guilty of embezzlement now he has been detained on his way to this rally since this rally the location of this demonstration has been has not been authorized by the authorities they had no problem with the protest itself but they offered a different place for it but the valley supporters decided to carry on they chose to come to this place literally a few hundred meters away from the kremlin now election of ali and a bu