. >> my name is walter jirassic, member of atlantic council and global enterprise. my question will be to you. i spoke with russians. i talked to russian people, as well. and i asked them to define democratic. not only in russia but other parts of the world. and they told me look, what are you talking about democracies? define new democracy in the united states when you have senators and congressmen who sit 20, 30 years in the seats and you have now putin let's say 12 years in office. so they ask me very simple question. define what is democracy. >> you're asking vlad to define it if? >> can i just piggyback on that and put it in a somewhat different way that add this to your answer which is talk a little bit about what unites the opposition and the extent to which the opposition is made up of democrats as opposed to important segments of the population who oppose putin because they're two different things, being for a more democratic society, a more liberal society which is a slice of the yanic lek tore rat, but certainly much of what we read here, elements of the