problematic about the opposition is that anybody but putin attitude which is very counterproductive john larkin if i can go to you because every even the putin to tractors would be needed before the election he was by far the most popular politician in russia but you can still having said that you still can't have a slogan anyone but putin i mean it's contradictory and it's certainly counterproductive ok what i worry about is that they want to want to engage the new president well when they say that it's a red it's a rift it underlines the weakness doesn't it because that's the only thing they agree on in the western media we concentrate exclusively on the liberal opposition but the fact is that when you look at the blogosphere and when you leave certain circles in moscow also in petersburg the main opposition to putin is not liberal at all it is precisely illiberal it is more nationalistic it is more and he western it is more conservative than the people who demonstrated at christmas time and you know it's only in this distorting prism of western analysis that the liberal opposition have linsk