parties and today we have to live in your view not speak of the liberal democrat. reaching out to everyone in the crowd the first of a political party to really build a populist in paul soviet russia was the liberal democrat party is slogans have always been clear and simple like no taxes for small business well doubling salaries for teachers and the populace tactic has worked so far the party has always given they'd share of seats in the state duma. the first officially sanctioned opposition party in the soviet union the liberal democratic party of russia was founded in one thousand nine hundred a year before the collapse of the us ceasar throughout the two decades of its existence that party has been centered around its highly charismatic leader bloody nerves you know ski. his first political breakthrough came in one nine hundred ninety one and he came in third at russia's first presidential election. he's eccentric behavior or temper and sharp tongue have made him one of the most conspicuous personalities on russia's political arena as well as a media darling of the nineteen ninety three do my election were the biggest success for the liberal democratic party which gives it twe

party has always gained it share of seats in the state duma. the first officially sanctioned opposition party in the soviet union the liberal democratic party of russia was founded in one thousand nine hundred a year before the collapse of the us ceasar throughout the two decades of its existence the party has been centered around its highly charismatic leader like the nerve hearing of ski. his first political breakthrough came in one nine hundred ninety one and he came in third at russia's first presidential election. eccentric behavior or temper and sharp tongue have made him one of the most conspicuous personalities on russia's political arena as well as immediate thought the nineteen ninety three to my election were the biggest success for the liberal democratic party which gets twenty three percent of the vote more than its rivals afterwards it could never come close to as good a result the party's populist rhetoric and the charism of its leader have so far guaranteed it seats in russia's state duma. hello mr sure enough ski thank you for being with us to begin with guarding your campaign agenda are you happy with russia's current foreign policy

know what to spend their patriotism on but it's no compere use logans to those of the liberal democratic party of russia it's a very popular party that's why i want to do it they have a slogan no saying that liberal democrats are for the russians you slogan reads is russia above everything isn't it the same thing is definitely not best for russia does everything i would like to point out that the russian people comprise up to eighty. percent of the country's population and the russian culture and social protection of russians are all very important but recently some politicians have taken up their role of the defenders of the russian people i'm not sure that the russian people really need this kind of protection but use of the interest when they say that they want to defend the russians they should address the government those officials who are russian and ask them whether they protect the russian people or not what's this protection all the bugs if it's about extremist views if it's about ignoring all other nationalities and overlooking the fact that we're live in a multinational state and i don't thin

mr mitrokhin welcome to spotlight there were first of all your party one of the oldest in russia sometimes called liberal sometimes social democratic sometimes something else what about you how do you define its. artificial positions. as a social liberal policy in the party and social liberal vs which of the world's prominent parties would you compare yourself to. there was a famous man living heart and made post-war germany one of the world's economic leaders. he called himself a social liberal you and i may know him but i'm afraid that most of our viewers are more familiar with the democrats the republicans the conservatives in the labor party and so on are you somewhere to any of those. in many ways similar to the liberals but we also have much in common with the labor policy experts and by the way the liberals and the labor party in britain everybody who originally one party when you they were together for some time and shared the same views and then they cannot agree on some points what are ideology as a social markets a social oriented market economy where anyone can make money if it goes except for those. so you can't work f

of the russian democratic party yabloko. mr mitra in you just senate hearing thing you said that the lections in russia have become more liberal and democratic as a member of an opposition party you're saying that now you have more opportunities for campaigning. well actually i only mentioned one aspect of the complaint which is of course important yes but the president gave us a promise he gave a promise to all the leaders of russian parties when we met in sort at that meeting we demanded broader access to media and also demanded equal conditions for non-parliamentary parties because parliamentary parties have a special longer inseam them equal access to the media but this law does not apply to us so the president made this promise and this is actually happening today even though of course united russia is dominating all news programs on the two biggest television channels visit least we have an opportunity to take part in the debates and united russia is not taking part in debates. by the way listen looks rather strange studio so to world when a ruling party refuses to take part in the us which i personally think that if the

on november twenty sixth i appeal to the candid as of all the parties over four of us at first yeah right cause there russia and the liberal democrats. the communists refused straight away they must have been warned against it by someone. and then we started getting mixed messages from the older p.r. . and then the other party started getting threats. for instance there's been who is on the right cause ballot said he was prepared to bring his supporters to the rally. leaders and his party told him. that if he goes through interfax with me turnouts the rally or he will be taken off the ballot immediately . but many politicians talk about the election in these terms you see this party was told to do this their party was warned against that when you see this to mean that those recommendations come from the coming of course not only. will it be seen in some people close to the kremlin it seems like you are all it theater and they are the rhetoric. against say that formally the kremlin controlled all political activities. but it can no longer do today has it is getting weaker criminal officials are not the only ones influencing politics.

communists would come second with twenty percent of the vote liberal democrats would get twelve percent on just russia would be nine percent if your whole of the party is according to the polls what we want worse and that's less than an entry threshold to the seven percent meanwhile the board is oppositional claims that the united russia's popularity is dropping steadily and becoming a vote has lining up to be one of the party's worst performances have or we should mention that like him or putin also acknowledged last week that problems in the party do exist and we also if you want that. the ruling united russia good launch the country to happen on the crisis is similar to those which have great european countries now and he said that it was only thanks to the united russia's majority that russia survived the economic crisis of two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine was not needed while the cold across at united russia say that as you crispino the popularity is not significant and that the parties still favored by the majority in this country we have to understand of course that united russia party would not be satisfied with just coming f

united russia will gain at least forty three percent of the votes coming second hour communists with fourteen percent the liberal democrats will secure at least nine percent for the other four parties it will be largely about how they perform in t.v. debates and to secure at least one seat in the duma they will have to overcome a five percent threshold to mention it very for hands the united russia party his list has even put his political future on the table saying his possible post as the country's prime minister could depend on how well the point who performs at the election booths prime minister putin is also backing united russia and has even become somewhat of a trademark of the party over the years they've chosen december's dumbell options will each receive as sparking new tea set a welcome gift from the government the specifics of the order are exacting the search will be made from white porcelain each with a gold stream each cup must hold a certain amount of tea interesting new though not all sets are of the same size two hundred for our tea and coffee sets for twelve while the remaining four hundred fifty are just scaled down six person sets and while it's not clear which