well i'm very happy to say we can go live on the program narrative franco frattini italy's former foreign affairs minister and the president of the italian society for international organizations a pleasure to have you with us how significant is this vote for russia if it progresses and gets the necessary public support will it set rochelle a new course. well i think it's extremely important that after 30 years it was absolutely necessary to modernize this state where president putin i remember what he used to say already 10 years ago we need more there are no easy these is the top level leader for a state we are talking about a constitution so to modernize the constitution to have edition every system looking at the next 30 or 50 years it is a very important result it's a message of political leadership but it's also good for the ordinary people living in the russian federation just examining some of the coverage of this vote and this are for teeny the foreign news coverage it's been focused solely really on love him or putin's chance to stay in power why he thinks some of the major soci