there's been mass coverage of how illegal demonstrators were arrested and linked to released like blogger alex enough i look forward to protestors protests for violence why do you think you see such a popular figure with the media i think in this popularity so far it's mostly with the internet community and of course yes i managed to raise interest because a person after the after the recent after the recent trailers much will depend on his behavior in the future because one thing he should be a popular internet hero and the other thing is to become a politician so far it's not yet sure that he is ready to again take responsibility to take the challenge and to become a political figure most importantly but those debates move from this trade into the building of the lower house of the russian parliament thank you very much for that meeting for you coming from the first state session of the state tomorrow. it's going to tour with life in central moscow thank you. for watching lots of the new year is just ten days away and we are starting our very own countdown with ten spots. reports on events t

alex savage has the story. >> just the new. >>> in. reporter: locked in a legal fight over his twitter followers, blogger noah kravitz is being sued by his employer phonedog.com. during his five years with the company kravitz said he started a twitter account phone dog noah. the tweets were both professional and personal. >> it's my account. we agreed it was my account. they agreed it was my account. reporter: but a few months after travis left the company he was hit with a lawsuit. even though he changed his twitter handle to simply noah kravitz, phonedog.com is still asking to be compensated for the thousands of followers he left with. the company used his twitter list as a customer list and in their suit they ask for $340,000. >> if you use their valuation and applied it to lady gaga's account, you would have a valuation that far exceeds the gross national product. >> the gross domestic product is many nations on its. reporter: in a statement phonedog.com said we intend to aggressively protect our customer list and confidential information including intellectual property. so. >> so if it turns out that my case can help set some rules,