spotlight i'm al green of and just a reminder that my guests in the studio today are journalist simon shuster and political scientist leon youth political doom and we've started talking about this this proposal in the latest putins are not about placing web cameras in courts before he before he proposed putting web cameras on polling station so you say this is cosmetic but but but well. some people consider this being a breakthrough i mean i mean i mean i mean a live streaming from court from polling station this is this is that was unthinkable i mean even a couple of years ago you know i'm a member of presidential council on human rights and we like them so will this work yes or no in the console and my friends colleagues members of this console we can see the very democratic step really yeah you think this will work yes we agree on this point it's a very interesting suggestion and we'll do everything that. that will be a real result that is you know its main point i would say or i would repeat my question to you as a member of this council if it's a closed trial if the court decides it's go

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