sergey mironov of fair russia on the record the former senate speaker was a strong supporter of lot of your person for ten years but in two thousand and eleven called putin's united russia the party of crooks and fiends plan for presidency free education and health care progress of tax collections for a place governor appointments controversy previously described himself as a pro kremlin candidate ready to run for the presidency of roles. for opposing russia's accession to the w t o presidential election two thousand and twelve on party. coming across i'm going to remind you we're talking about the march fourth presidential election in russia. take. ok gentlemen one of the things i kind of like i mean i don't like to mimic our richard nixon because that's not my political flavoring but i mean he did talk about the the silent majority and they can the rise of conservatism in the united states and it seems to me that when we when we look at these protests that are televised on russian television and you can get to watch plenty of it on youtube if you want is actually energized the silent

this may be his last run although he has he graduated to seeing on the victory and after him sergei mironov of the fair rochelle coming in just under four percent he's also graduated to take on a victory and quietly accepted that. he's busy friends live without a break from downtown moscow thanks very much well the biggest event in russian politics in the last four years being closely watched online as well on r.t. dot com there to help help to get across to you the latest updates and bring you in-depth analysis of the vote and its subsequent reaction also background profiles all the candidates who participated in the race for the country's top job. i'll be back soon with the headlines.