the chief editorial writer and a columnist at the independent and here in the studio with me is ben eris he is editor in chief of business new europe or across the uk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want but i'm going to go to you first here in the studio was this election a game changer how old was this election different from previous elections it was different in the sense that you know it was a lot more democratic and so much that putin had to play gallery in the way that he hasn't done before i think the picture is a good thing yes yes i think the big change is you know up until this election putin has been above politics and he hasn't been a politician is just the president as i would if you want to call him however the demonstrations you know he was dictating i think debate by saying this is important and then everybody talked about it he chose the difference for this election is that he did the demonstrations of pull them down into the process and then he's lost control of the debate and so he's become. responsible accountable in the way that he never has before