no body will decide whether to continue its own efforts or ask the u.n. to movie. and romania is gripped by massive protests as frustrated crowds demand an end to the government's austerity measures and corruption and call for the president to go some sixty people were injured in violent clashes among protesters and police in the capital. and as the presidential campaign in russia gathers pace algren all talks the political scientists about the electoral platform of prime minister and candidate puts the spotlight is next. hello again or welcome to spotlight the end to the show on park street i'm al green of venture they will be discussing an article recently published by the russian prime minister and national day. the election in russia is just around the corner

the date is march the fourth no wonder this week the current prime minister and campaign favorite put in has published his electrode manifesto praising the civil society and growth of the middle class putin is pledging to diversify the economy and increase civil liberties if elected pessimist criticized both an article claiming the promises are unlikely to be fulfilled they warn putting fans of the risk of further power centralization so what should we expect if mr putin becomes president and does his recent article help us make predictions were asking political scientist guinea and constantine similar both the kremlin candidates have so far won every presidential race in russia's history the best result of what was achieved eighty's ago when they mirror putin was reelected with

seventy one percent of the vote this time around it's a much tougher complaint for him as the presidential race is taking place in the aftermath of last year's mass protests against alleged fraud at the parliamentary election it was the ruling united russia party in half of the vote in the delegate rigging the accusations which infuriated the crowd the biggest opposition really is in russia's recent history did not lead to a knowing the election result with good morgan intrigue into the presidential race the contenders are now faced. with a new political reality a much more active electorate and the heated online debate while a bloody new putin still remains the most popular politician according to opinion polls he might be the first time in his career and not make it in the first round of election continues rivals are the three leaders of the political parties represented in the do much of the communist good ninety's uganda who came quite

cool to the presidency in one thousand nine to six but having children lost to boris yeltsin defied the eccentric leader of the liberal democratic party. and sergei mironov the leader of the fair russia party who headed the upper house of the russian parliament ten years other participants of the election race one of russia's most well known politicians a gringo you ski. trail broker of and the governor dmitri measurements of the political debate is most listened to the round the december protests this week to action race favorite word dinner putin published his manifesto which is considered to be in part he's response to those who took to the streets last month. oh hello welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us here on the show first of all this article of let me put that we're discussing today it's called russia is concentrate he put in he's promising a brighter future for the middle class in fact it seems he is addressing mainly the

middle class in this article but is it his reaction to the december protests which were which were mostly supported by the urban educated part of the society what would you say. i'm afraid i have to disagree with you because. putin says about middle class. he does not suggest anything to middle class yes of course but it does sound like a suggestion i mean what works. return to five million or. so they already have. walk in places they think at the. end of. so they're home more liberty more civil rights they have more want more chances for career but they didn't have another.

report and so i do not understand he doesn't even so you do agree. that doesn't give an answer and in my opinion of course this article i mean if you're speaking about the main address of this of course is so-called middle class or we can say young people who took part in this this is the actual. part of absolutely i'm sure that this is a reaction. and you know for example that before this campaign to the state duma a portion wrote another article in the same newspaper in which it was also like a program article but it was about absolutely different idea about your race. with the role no absolutely right program but i can agree with you again because he's tried to speak with middle class but he cannot

give this price let's stick to the middle class so she hears what putin had to say about the middle class in russia in this article. what is particularly important is that with the past ten years russia has produced a considerable segment of the population people who in the west told the middle classes their incomes allow them a certain freedom and what they choose to spend and what to see what to buy and how to spend their holidays they can afford to be choosy where to work and have some savings under their belt lastly the middle classes of people who can choose politics as a rule. their education is such that they can take a discriminating attitude to candidates rather than vote with their heart insured the middle classes have begun shaping their real demands various we. put in has be very ambiguous in his reaction to the mass protests on the one side he was calling them banned or lamas accusing them of being paid sponsor at least by

hillary clinton but on the other hand he is publishing articles appealing to the middle class do you see it as a contradiction gentlemen. know he he. looks like his address and middle class but. daunte have his girl. and. so for example our president mitt emitted if he's serious about political reform he says about governors elections. new rules for the political money is registration but not of what about this in this article of. but not in the way i use or burn and well i think that several weeks ago all absolutely agree there was absent a different edit of different activity well yes and in every article here we see that i agree that in this article not so many answers. but we

seeing that them to put in to speak with this people so that is wait now we see we can save a new venue motion of fortune to speak with this people in the other interesting thing another interesting thing we read about in this article according to put it himself the emergence of the middle class in russia is an achievement of putin's group do you agree and there's the middle class and so agree that this is yes we see that from sample from the beginning of to solve want and those personal to solve them withstand the years of prosperity and then. we see there of course we see the increase of consumption we see the increase in of people's income and this protest is also the result of increase in of people incomes middle class is not only consumption it's about it's about having their say in political life as you can hear stuff. so so so if it's first of all consumption then

then putin doesn't have to fear i mean the practice of the middle class i mean they're irrelevant for the campaign or they are irrelevant. so i guess. the growth for middle class is one of the achievements of putin's regime yes that's right but he says ok say think you and you have. to be busy for example in charity. something like this but don't go to political life it's not yours there are some people who are experts who are already. in government. jobs despite the printers despite despite the mood through the friendly mood towards the towards the thirty's that we saw. during the mass demonstrations

there doesn't seem to be a dialogue establishing between this protesting middle class the angry urban citizens and the kremlin why not you know of course this article is not enough is not enough for this people and that is why you're speaking about this absence of dialogue but we set about two maybe three because it was it was impossible to think that would write such article so maybe after two or three weeks we'll see. there i learned even with them when i saw not only on family to college it was also there were some of the simple actually broken himself had to say something about the political debate in russia let's hear it i'm worried that there is virtually no broader discussion of what should be done beyond the elections after the election to my mind this is not in the national interest it is not in the interest of the quality of societies development the standard of education and

levels of responsibility. well if putin really is serious about being worried about the absence of political debate then why isn't he taking part in the debate in the in the election debate on television and newspapers and so and so forth one so if your. spin doctor. would be a spin doctor of put him. would say here don't go to debates really yes he gives about forty percent. here closest opponent has about ten percent and if you have a debate with this candidate you lose well well he doesn't. that's because. the fact of the debate i know what you're talking about do you mean that advertising advertising can never be good for

a market leader you know yes it does go to the outsiders yes you know in russia a very small course you were speaking about to debate as a serious political tradition of course first of all we must mention united states but usually united states we see two candidates which usually have a pretty closely as many calls in russia of course it's an absolute and different situation that is why for portion of those from technical point of view in sim possible to have public debate and then what we're going to make about not directly bringing the. i think i was also in my opinion is that you have to have this debate to sort of ok well just a reminder that consented soon enough and he'd give me a mention go political scientists tell you my studio would discussing let me put this recent recent manifesto his article published business newspaper and we'll be back right after a break so stay with us then the. russia

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shaman of siberia. welcome back to spotlight on our novel in just a reminder that my guests on the show today are political scientists again you mention co and constantin seem if we're talking about putting political manifesto his recent article published in the is based in the national daily journal and we talked about to be put inside talking about putting the political system but how it's going to develop if he is elected this is a very interesting social first of all one of the problems that that many people seen put into political system is is that it's not producing any leader any

political leader other than let me put himself even the more most loyal medvedev. didn't. decide not to run for the second presidential term and i would make a wild guess that this was an advice reputed so why is it happening this way. because that's current of tradition of russian monarchs here. the one leader. told about debates. talking about debates. the only one only one case is the. future president took part in the debates in russia it was in one nine hundred ninety. s. i'm not a russian as you know this was it or not but it was russia yes but not us and. said yes. there is. only one case

so and for that. this. power when they go out of power there pyramid of power. does not allow to become a new leaders who is it well i mean i'm not discussing these systems so is it right for russia such a system could of course it's not right and they don't i mean for russian for the specific russian system of control. is inadequate this is not a good system you know the problem was that at the beginning of ninety's we see of course when we see this transformation from soviet times to new democratic plans of course the usual mount of political parties a huge amount of political leaders and that is why now or ninety's we see the

people of a little bit. story and those who are at the beginning of the first term there was . another idea of people there was another. we can say the idea was not the people don't want to see this conflict of different leaders and so on so on they want to see stable state good sellers and so on so on so now we see of course absolute a different situation we see the new people which are trying to see a new policy that is why a lot of people they're speaking about the so-called return of politics in russia but by a few degrees a serious problem maybe people that porter and that that of his face or his way rivals mr zyuganov here. here is what i would see people who i really really wouldn't face i would rather see put in are tired of the absence of political

intrigue yet is associated with things instability let's if you permit me changes are we talked about the economic aspect our food this program and here's what the prime minister himself said about the economic challenges russia is facing. the steady growth in russia as well in the past decade has largely been due to government policy including a more rational distribution of the country's commodities oil revenues were used to boost people's incomes to pull millions out of politics we have also ensured that the country had a rainy day savings to support it through prices or disasters but the potential of a commodity based economy is becoming depleted and what's more it has to do you. do you have to question why putin's twelve years at the top were not enough to make russian economy industrial and innovative one. because.

mobilization because people. wanted. to have. some very prosperity they the world prices seemed to be enough. yes yes that's it yes yes because if you're a member. so controversial industrialization. in. the very very difficult for russia for soviet union now people don't want to displace for the this is a maybe lose news for all of us because if we remember these talents industry is ation of the country was due to the fact. that the communists were ready to go to war with the rest of the world so today's situation means russia is not getting

ready. so you know in russia it's not a secret bit fifty percent of our state incomes he's money from or them go industry and. we're no where oh well. the number of employees in this guess and industry is less than one million people less than one million and the population is one hundred forty million people and that is why it's in my opinion the way important thing that the people speaking about nucor knew for example a quantum you like post industrial world and so on so on the people who take part in this meeting know square. they in my opinion they don't want to work and they don't want to have this new jobs twenty five million they want to take part in the distribution of resources. that million people you're talking about they do the new work in all industry but they buy houses built by others they buy cars constructed

boilers and there was a. sink in the money but in the red. they took this money from oil and gas industry and they want to have more money and they're sinking that his government they're the main redistribute of this incomes they are asked to pay but to take them to be process when we're talking about this for the economic part putin's putin's article i recognize that putin is still using the nineteen ninety s. as sort of a benchmark in order to praise his the years in power is that well it didn't work during it during his first tournament now maybe partly during his second term in power but is it working now to comparing with the ninety's aren't people today in need of new standards now of growth so i guess it doesn't look it does not rule. and. i think. more chance for putin to be in.

his opulence. think of the leaf and the wall to. use to never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. in those elections. there are a serious problem of our position the main problem in the second you should agree with me that the main problem of two of the putin's years yes is corruption why what what what everybody says and then this is this is something that they couldn't sell on the night of they can't solve the problem why isn't there a single word about corruption in this article i can agree on the partly with your because he's not the problem of putin's presence corruption is a problem of russia since because if you're in the seat of the. right for example

that's really their sole of course you can find a lot of facts about your. for example in the nineteenth century that is why it's a serious problem it's not on the it's of course now we see this problem but it's not the programme of presence that is why it's not so is it to find the solution to this problem but why you ask me why we can't find some words about corruption in this article because in my opinion and we began our program with that first of all do what's right all. right something and have some ideas to people on board now square that is where i first thought he was writing about twenty five million of jobs he was trying to speak of them that is why he cannot write about all topics in this article and that is why we see the end of this article to be continued so this is not the world. well now well if it's to be continued let's talk about the

future here is how potent formulates the girl of russia in the years to come let's hear it. i see all gold in the years to come and sweeping away all that stands in the way of our national development completing the establishment of russia the political system the stronger of social guarantees and safeguards for the public and an economic model that together form a single living ever changing organism of state that is a to same time resilient stable and healthy. but is the existing bureaucracy able to to to to make putin's good promise is a reality constantin whatever you say because there's there's no other mechanism than the bureaucracy to realize these goals yes but i soon. there are a lot of expectations that we will see if yours are mild of changes in government

structures and that is why i hope that we really see the new face of student is speaking about changing the system. the system will remain the same the sub the song remains the same well. there should be some incentive for the bureaucrats to start changing things other such incentives really bad. for them you know so i guess the main problem bribe taker stools goes for years a in absence of dialogue and then put in blames his opponents don't have that dialogue. they don't take part in dialogue but that's the problem of the power of the authorities to thank you thank you very much gentlemen for being with us and just a reminder that my guests in the studio today were political scientists have guinea mention co and constantin sim and that's it for now from politics spotlight will be

back with more comments from one is going on in and outside russia until then stay on party and take it.

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