right martin mccauley a specialist on russia at the university of london thanks for your analysis this hour well here on the first exit polls they show that united russia is leading with over forty eight percent of the vote the communists are coming in second just slightly short of twenty percent which is what they were hoping for fair russia has a little less than thirteen percent and the liberal democrats around twelve percent according to the polls the other three parties taking part haven't broken the seven percent threshold it should be noted of course that around thirty percent of people refuse to answer exit poll question so that's interesting when analysis and now analyzing i should say how this vote is going we will continue to monitor developments live from our special studio here as the central election committee is set to release the first results continue to release these first results as voting has closed across russia join us next hour for extended coverage of election twenty eleven. sixteen minutes past nine sunday night here in the russian capital now let's turn to som

weekends to demands a rerun of the parliamentary elections are you surf earth right that i mean time martin mccauley an expert on russia from the university of london says that although proud of strong ties are on so it will certainly make the presidential race more interesting. he's a very good mathematician he's a finance here he's a businessman he's a sports personality he actually owns a basketball team in america he's internationalist so therefore he's a name that people will recognize and he would bring some. youthful vigor if you like to the proceedings we haven't much experience of politics but you could argue about finance you can argue about the way ahead for russia he may in fact attract the new urban class of the young professionals the under thirty five's and so on they want a voice and. made fact off of that but of course being an extremely rich man he's not going to attract the poorest population so i would say it was really going for the new middle class young professionals of the people who would like to be like. because i right now turning eleven minutes past the hour here in mosco

which get a five or six percent will also get one or two seats in the parliament respectively martin mccauley a specialist on russia from the university of london says this will have a positive influence on the norm making process. it would be a very good thing if there were some of the smaller parties more independent minded people because they could have to create a different view for. the united russia because it's the ruling party it will contain the people who are in power the people who want to be in power and the people who work for the government and so on and those in the economy who depend on government contracts and so on outside that you need the others who are not dependent on the government. to take the view for. all this can be put into the mix to develop. russia which is going forward by all accounts the elections have shattered russia's own one party one power set up and that's something that's left many breathing a sigh of relief but also presents new challenges such as sustaining the country's modernization drive which international experts involved in science and technolog

martin mccauley a russia specialist at the university of london believes pocket of his candidacy has introduced some fresh blood to the springtime race for the country's top job. it makes it more interesting because he's a very good mathematician these are finance he's a businessman he's a sports personality he's internationalist so therefore he's a name that people would recognize and he would bring some. youthful vigor if you like to the proceedings one would expect him to articulate some views from a purely economic point of view we haven't much experience of politics but you can argue about finance you can argue about the way ahead for russia he may in fact attract the new urban class in moscow and st petersburg and you can rebuild places like that for the young professionals the under thirty five and so on they want a voice and they want politicians like you want is the longer the world telling the world they've been there for forty years there will be blood. for the record for being an excuse which he's not going to correct the course because he's very fearful really going for

accomplishment already so we have just to wait and see in order to find out what exactly has in store martin mccauley a russia specialist at university of london things progress will bring some fresh blood to the presidential race it makes it interesting because he's a very good mathematician these are finance here he's a businessman he's a sports personality he's internationalist so therefore he's a name that people who recognise he would bring some. useful vigor if you like to the proceedings one would expect him to articulate some views from a purely economic point of view he hasn't much experience of politics but he could argue about financially can argue about the way ahead for russia and he may in fact i've tried. the new urban class who most go into. places like that the young professionals the under thirty five's and so on they want a voice they want politicians. will be there for two or three years we need new blood. made cycle for that because being extremely rich man he's not to the crux of the poor guy because he was really going for the. young professionals who are the people who would l

now martin mccauley a russia expert on the university of london believes that it is important to listen to the voices of the opposition moreover he also thinks we should be implementing reforms to boost the country's potential for development a form of legitimacy is developed. the authority of the president of the government would be enhanced if the population felt that you could push for the educated population believed that their voice was a great addition to they could enter into a dialogue with the authorities and to transform russia because russia has enormous potential enormous human capital physical capital and has the potential to become a world leader that they would like the richer the educated people would like to play a part in that their first important that their views are heard and the government . the president the prime minister listen to their views and really take their views seriously. now you can find president full speech by going to our web site r t dot com a lot of other interesting stories there waiting for you as well including this one why one of the seats in