and they should respond, and by and large we are seeing positives. olga ivshina from bbc russia was monitoring the news conference. she told me more about what we heard form president putin. we need to remember that this press conference is first of all oriented for an internal russian audiences and this was exactly the message for an internal audience. in a way, mr putin is creating these dangerous dragons, you know? blaming it all on the west, saying that russia is only responding to build—ups from the west and then he is, sort of, gloriously defeating those dragons, or at least that is what he is showing for his internal audience. but for an external audience it is also very important, you know, in the way he is sending a message. he said that he's looking forward for negotiations with the west that are due injanuary and definitely the military build—up of russian troops is giving him some strong