recall the end of the ninety's session to power it was very very strong competition from let's say primakov and the score for the time so. that was that was mainly i mean i don't want to go back to ancient history but that was mainly decided. backstage of the kremlin and with a lot of influence from the old guard i don't choice was after the people you know it's for the people to decide in the direction of two thousand well i can congratulate you i can congratulate you on his victory in two thousand yeah and his victory in two thousand said all of the fair but the situation as he admits in this article has dramatically changed in society you know bands of society are for political competition by refusing to debate with his can the readers the reason is not engaging in political competition and the reason why we don't we don't have the real rivalry because we don't have real opposition leaders in the country what i am saying this is this is interesting because putin takes credit in this article for the emergence of the middle class as such yeah it's true the middle class emerged under the ec