spotlight i'm al gore and of and just a reminder that my guests on the show today are a key deal cocteau's political analyst and the editor in chief of the moscow news tim wall we're discussing let me put in this recent article which is considered to be. published part of his election program. platform or whatever well one of the issue is that president touches in this in this article dedicated to the nationalities ethnic problem is he proposes a creation of a new nationality is a ministry well then there's a question why did putin close down a special nationals ministry back in two thousand and one if it's a good solution to the ethnic problems well let's let's hear what putin writes about it. i believe that the federal government should set up a special agents are responsible for its development the internet you can do work and interaction these problems are currently the responsibility of the ministry of regional development unfortunately with the overwhelming volume of current issues that to deal with these matters on the roof and pushed to the back burner this needs to change. well an