sensationalist website in russia and they concern six hours of private phone conversations recorded boris nemtsov an opposition figure in which he insults fellow opposition leaders using very profane language and calls protesters how would leave kind wins and internet comes to those protesters turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all denies of the protests has hit back saying that this is kremlin phone tapping and that they've been released these phone conversations to try and discredit him and to split the opposition he doesn't ever admit that some of the phone conversations did happen and he's apologized for any insult caused in those but he says that others were falsified life news is oh no for its part has also added to the controversy by refusing to say where they got the recordings from but all of this is caused a great storm of controversy on the internet with people shocked by themselves words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition that that could

turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in that december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the all denies of the protests has hit back saying that this is kremlin phone tapping and that they've been released these phone conversations to try and discredit him to split the opposition he doesn't ever admit that some of the phone conversations did happen and he's apologized for any insult caused in those but he says that others were falsified life muses only for its part has also added to the controversy by refusing to say where they got the recordings from and all of this is caused a great storm of controversy on the internet with people shocked by themselves words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition that that could indicate. or for more news on the conspiracy issues head to our website dot com. or say that find out how the newly appointed american ambassador to moscow is to influence russians are coming to the election. and topless cover up three ukrainian there there in that news need it's easy to make

key russian opposition leader have been leaked on the internet creating a storm of controversy boris nemtsov is alleged to have called protesters who attended a rally against parliamentary elections how stars and cowardly hang wins well let's find out more and our team is tom barton joins us live from moscow. so tom this is likely to be a major blow for opposition supporters so where have these recordings com from and what else is on them. all the good questions marina a lot of people are asking them the revelations come from the notoriously tabloid and sensationalist life news dot brew website and they focus on six hours that they managed to obtain all of recordings of boris nemtsov who's an opposition leader one of the more famous opposition leaders and one of the organizers of the huge protests that have erupted since the december early december election results on the wires spreaders reports of vote rigging there the recordings. of the phone tapping of recordings between him and some of his colleagues. they they contain his use of a lot of very profane very rude language about some of hi

turning out on the reports of widespread vote rigging in that december's parliamentary elections boris nemtsov one of the organizers of the protests has hit back saying that this is kremlin phone tapping and that they've been released these phone conversations to try and discredit him and to split the opposition he doesn't ever admit that some of the phone conversations did happen and he's apologized for any insult caused in those but he says that others were falsified life news is oh no for its part has also added to the controversy by refusing to say where they got the recordings from and all of this is caused a great storm of controversy on the internet with people shocked by themselves words and his use of language about other opposition figures and the possible splits in russia's opposition but that could indicate. well conspiracy in russian political life isn't just a case of internal affairs check out our website r.t. dot com where we look at how washington's bad in moscow is playing big politics to nudge the country under the influence of the us. and our protests to follow the search f

that's right and boris nemtsov who is who you're referring to is probably the most well known in the west at least for now he's been in russian politics for years the former deputy prime minister and he openly doesn't deny that he has supported quite strongly by the national endowment for democracy in washington he often travels to congress and has meetings with us congressman so that's not something he hides but it is something that isn't it seems important to point out with all of these accusations going back and forth that he is here today he was arrested earlier this week at a protest on tuesday and then released another up and coming i think it's fair to say star of the opposition although not affiliated with a political party is and explain the vani is not here he was detained he was arrested on monday at a protest and you do hear a lot about he gets he has very high coverage in western media and they really talk about his anti-corruption movement that's really what his blog is about that's what he's most well known for here in russia his blogging what they don't focus on is hi

russia where united russia's votes went to get they didn't go to their favorite darling candidates boris nemtsov and grigory yavlinsky they didn't go to the pro western liberal parties they went instead to the communist party twenty years after the end of the soviet union the communist party has twenty percent of the vote in russia they went to fair russia which is a patriotic conservative party and of course they went to the extreme right zhirinovsky party these three parties i think in comparison to mr putin's united russia. i would have thought pretty unwelcome in western china for it exactly on if i can go to you first and that. tell my viewers where you have located did actually quite well that we did very well in two different. polling stations and they were in london and in washington d.c. so young what do you think that says about these liberal parties because just as john laughlin pointed out united russia took a beating it's got certainly a bloody nose but those votes didn't go to liberal parties ok again we'll have a new duma where these liberal parties will not be having any seats yo