mr publisher mr harper thank you very much for joining us on the show welcome to a sparkling no is this it so do we know the name of the next russian president thing would you say actually i think we're already know boss of the limos and that's trashing president and their next trash in our prime minister but you know i think it's not due to the reasons that some experts say i think there. has been over twelve years in public politics has proven to be a real leader of a new russia russian g.d.p. has almost doubled and of those twelve years while social stability and. steady development have been achieved so there are good grounds for continuing the. way of conducting wars foreign and domestic policy and most russians who really support the stand to do dude mutually agree that this is it and the intrigue intrigue is no no longer i would say never say you're sure especially in russia because because. we have seen a lot of times during the last twenty years or maybe even i would say twenty five years. it's very difficult to predict something in russia for sure the situation may develop you know lots of ways but. fortunately or unfortunately now it's more or less clear that in march the president will be inviting them. according to to the changing of the constitution the russian president will be elected for six years he could be there for two terms so do you think that let me put it will be there for the next twelve years or. we cannot be so sure now we know now we're talking about about six years well i think the russian elite since one thousand nine to one has been pursuing two apes first team is political stability you keep power and money. the second is to integrate this newly into the western political putin is responsible for the first priority so he will be number one and he was number one during most of those years and midriff is responsible for the second priority so he will always be an answer to in so they stand. in general we'll see how the situation develops i think the choice of you know the time then called keep riding with merely a first signal broom yet another term i think the choice shorts that there are some hard times ahead so all the time in internal politics for ensample russia and for the world you know the euro groundling lots of other things europe is russia's largest economic partner so when europe gets gets a call that russia will be also sneezing so all of this leave the auto for a safer bet not doing the best of banks. even in their own states. the quarrel they would call medvedev lame duck right now do you think in russia he would be a lame duck now i mean by by american standards are not or is the difference in russian politics i think in russia it's really different and first of all the basic reason about you know not only in russia but in other. countries of the most high valued commodity is stability and economic development and i think that one of the major achievements of paulson has been the creation of a system where it doesn't really matter who is the president and who is the prime minister because of the general course of the crunch it goes on its way and in this case i think i don't. no matter whether putin will hold his course as a president for two consecutive terms or whether there will change with a very for any other. and the other person who maybe we don't know but the basic idea is that both rationally it as my colleague has said and russian general public are interested in stability instead of elop and so they're able to get used to this people are experts are predicting a hard times for world economy for russian economy in the coming years so first of all i like i'd like to know your reaction how may the the the markets react to this news that that we're hearing today and and is putin's first or middle east first. is it going to be hard i mean. economically. but i think the markets will react positively because there is split in steam everywhere in russia so the fact that the padron is back and. he's now been away one hundred percent i mean what kind of percent of our now he's back well i'm not so that's good news for markets but he's facing hard times and i will say this of all the western politicians western politicians including vice president the u.s. vice president joe biden who came here made it very clear that they would prefer to deal with medvedev. a victory on the court which who is going to meet our president today may also be a little disappointed because he also bet on me dear friend now he still can call their lame long normally saw visually there is a certain there is certain disparity they call to me between the markets and western politicians and i think that shows you how i would see you really stick is western policy towards russia sometimes the markets say one thing and the militias say it's quite why i was asking about the hard times because because putin did promise i'm screwed now to to reason russia's g.d.p. to a level of seven percent but on the same day finance minister in putin's government mr goulden said that the next decade is going to be lost because of slow world g.d.p. growth people some are even expecting a crisis coming how are these two promises compatible isn't it well yes this is a misquotation really i mean it was moving i mean cauldrons i mean it's it's it's it's called haitian because i wouldn't said absolutely the opposite i think it's a go into the last decade for the world economy that is slumping in the recession while he said nothing about russia so he said it would not be easy for russian economy before us and he saw the context is that russia is an exporting economy and no exports are much higher than our important orders because that adds to the global g.d.p. . we know the country that has positive. export import balance in this case russia is the contradiction adds up to the global g.d.p. and it will not it's not going to face any major crisis of course there is a global economy and we know there are crisis in the euro zone which could easily cause th