actually the early to thousands liberal parties have not been represented in the state duma and the is also the elections of the moscow city council the so-called moscow city duma. went a bit differently from what the. program in the united russia party. had expected or. ones that show that there is a possibility of growing possibility of a growing sense that in 2021 in the upcoming elections to the russian duma the russian parliament there could possibly again be liberal members of parliament representatives of liberal party. included so so these. elections that have just just and that they are showing a growing frustration on the part of voters and not just in moscow i would remind you that in the far east for example in about a scary june the liberal democratic party of russia which is one the elementary part is he had significant significantly over the united russia party and the effect in the election to the moscow city council a number of united russia members had. shown themselves to be a sort of title independent so they ran as independents instead of united russia members of p

actually the early to thousands liberal parties have not been represented in the state duma and the is also the elections of the moscow city council the so-called moscow city duma. went a bit differently from what the. program in the united russia party. had expected or. wanted to show that there is a possibility of growing possibility here a growing sense that in 2021 in the upcoming elections to the russian duma the russian parliament there could possibly again be liberal members of parliament representatives of liberal party. included so so. these elections that have just just and that they are showing a growing frustration on the part of voters and not just in moscow i would remind you that in the far east for example in about a speech in the liberal democratic party of russia which is one the elementary part is. significant significantly over the united russia party and the effect in the election to the moscow city council a number of united russia members had. shown themselves to be a sort of title independent so they ran as independents instead of united russia members of parlia

about moscow and st petersburg here that's part of the reason why many of the candidates for the state duma here in the city duma rather here in moscow to sharon this independent candidates out of fear that association with the brand if you do that or see it could actually hurt their chances in today's polling and what outcome is the opposition campaigning for considering that many of its candidates have been barred from running. well it really depends on what you mean by the opposition is hard to speak from or of a unified opposition when it comes to russia when it comes alexina vali you mention who is one of the most prominent members of the russian opposition and one of the most vocal members actually trying to. see he's actually focused on trying to get his supporters to back a list of candidates he says have the best chance of defeating the d.n.a. to see a member's basically they're arguing that by preventing more of their candidates from getting into government it would be a win for the opposition in general now so far we don't know how many people are going to actually support his li

actually the early to thousands liberal parties have not been represented in the state duma and the is also the elections of the moscow city council the so-called moscow city duma which went a bit differently from what the. program in the united russia party. had expected or. ones that show that there is a possibility a growing possibility here a growing sense that in 2021 in the upcoming elections to the russian duma the russian parliament there could possibly again be liberal members of parliament representatives of liberal party. included so so these. elections that have just just and that they are showing a growing frustration on the part of voters and not just in moscow i would remind you that in the far east for example in about a scary june the liberal democratic party russia which is one the elementary parties had gained significant significantly over the united russia party and the effect in the election to the moscow city council a number of united russia members had. shown themselves to be a sort of title independent so they ran as independents instead of united russia membe

should we should really state duma as done with politics or is do more for territory. how you design the. force wasn't an option actually what they realised. the technology of protest. sharing reputably and they are actually. they delayed in their action so like the smart folks what they want to do it is actual business and think that the state did numerous number but is it isn't that actually no vilely who did that because. we have to explain our viewers that why is my smarts boding we we mean his call for his supporters to support any known crime manderson aligned to support but to kill or candidates we has the you know the airlines with the crown land that is too. high probability 0 win and north eliza fueling the violence created or is it part of a broader trend in russia of the growth of product as it's purely it's just it's purely in the light of the credit goes to keep build the device or for using the what were coal efik yeah the effect action or using it in the racial way but you can see it the same exact happening in other regions when of ali's. activities na

state duma as do with politics or zoom of territory which. they do or how you design the bridge. force wasn't an option actually what they realized. the technology of protest. sharing reputably and they are actually. they delayed their action so like the smart folks won't know what to do and if there's a same thing that the state did numerous number of what is it isn't that actually no vile me who did that because. we have to explain our viewers that why is my smarts boding we we mean his call for his supporters to support any known crime and it's a line across the board but to killer candidates we has the know the airlines with the crown land that is too. high probability 0 win and no eliza human of allah is created or is it part of the broader trend in russia of the growth of product as it's purely just you it's purely in a lot of the credit because he build the device or using the what we call affect the effort to action or using it in the racial way but you can see it the same exact happening in other regions when of ali's. activities nadab friends and i think that maybe also

parliamentary party has actually had of the elections to the russian parliament of the russian state duma coming up in 2021 you know many of the opposition candidates of course were banned were barred from taking part in the moscow local elections not of course led to the protests that we saw on the streets of the capital but how can alexina valmy and his supporters how can they capitalize now on what has happened in moscow. well the decisions that were made by the moscow city election 3 commission the were counterproductive as the actually raised awareness of the some of the opposition candidates that really did not have that why they were name recognition before this happened and to be honest in fair elections of these candidates if they were allowed to run if they were registered to tour on the would have simply lost due in the fair election to their to their competitiveness some of them would have won but many of them if not most would have lost and so in a way the moscow city election commission shot itself in the foot by by using to register a number of these candidates and of cours

state. but the united to russia veteran who has been a member of the moscow duma or regional parliament since it was founded in 1903 is not running for her party on the ballot she's an independent candidate running for the money i'm running i'm a member of this body i'm a member of this body everybody wants to have a lot of people if there are a problem with your party you know we haven't any problem i brought out that i am a member of the right and that's all thank you very much. great things for the party which was founded soon after put in became president in 1909 dropped 11 percent to 28 percent last year after the retirement age was increased a move that led to a nationwide protest during last year's regional elections united russia lost for governor positions analysts say the party's very name has become a liability a campaign rally for united russia but not a single party flacco banner and you see the candidates here say they're here the 1st of all people in moscow and they don't need to use the park if named but i will say it shows how deep united russia has fallen. the usually low ke

duma leader zhirinovsky certainly didn't shed any tears when that happened but laughs off the notion that the russian stateonnected in any way. for one simple reason. he thinks russian agents would have done a better job. >> translator: i'm surprised that the uk special services and the uk court accuses russia and lugovoi that with a bag of polonium they came to london and were just throwing it around. >> reporter: it just doesn't make sense to a lot of people that russia didn't kill him. >> translator: for a hundred years, the russian special services have been using the kind of substances for killing people that you never will be able to recognize. why do we have to go into some kind of a bar and put it in someone's tea cup and everyone's laughing at it? i mean, the state cannot be involved in that. >> reporter: litvinenko's friend paul joyal, who believes he was the target of a botched assassination, agrees that in some ways litvinenko's killers were indeed clumsy and careless. but he says that's because they were probably just pawns in a much bigger game. >> do you think that any of them knew what that