Party theyre going to vote that means over 50 percent of of the electorate and now we have quite a structured electoral system with more than 50 percent supporting the united russia. With like 15 to 20 percent supporting the communists the same for the nationalists like 10 percent 4 for the socialists less than 10 percent for the liberals who are which are too liberal to unite if they lose the elections if they are not popular its their fault they cannot unite you cannot provide agenda they cannot position themselves as a russian Political Force as now while they cannot present him as a russian politician he is much more popular in germany then he is he is in russia his rating never exceeded 2 percent and i think whatever when israel will have not a lot in a russian as well as for 20 baron as far as has his rating is 20 percent at the moment not bad all we have is that of course of course but. I tell you. The there is no such independent pauli and cannot be you know my considering this
A key architect of the European Union and the g 7 dies from coal with 19 former french president hollande has called a star led france during the 1970 s. And laid the foundation for europes single currency. As welcome to the program the head of germanys Public Health institute says he expects the coronavirus pandemic to claim many more lives in the country at a News Conference the president also a cough institut a lot of villas said germany had managed to stabilize the rate of new infections through restrictions in the past weeks but he stressed that caseload remains too high said he was particularly concerned about the rate of infections in care homes where increasing numbers of elderly residents are contracting the virus and he wanted all spittles coming under growing strain. Busy indifferent owning union or continental in some regions were seeing hospitals reach the limits of their capacities and as a result for having to perspire surgeries or treatments. We also see the number of s
Welcome to the session of the 25th annual texas book festival. My name is Julie Schwietert collazo and im an author and im also the midrater of this panel, border stories, immigration, refuge and justice. And today im honored to be speaking with the writers who know a great deal about these subjects. Before we begin our conversation, i have a few housekeeping items to review. First, wed like to encourage you to leave mints and a chat box and skinned send kudos to our authors. If you have a question for an author pleasic the ask a question button which in crowd cast. The producerred will send me your questions and well get to as many of these questions as we can. One more housekeeping item. This is a bilingual panel. And in addition to serving as your moderator ill be doing double duty as your translator. This will work as follows. I will ask questions in english and then spanish, will translae answers in the same way. Over ore purist the translation will not be word for word. I will ta
Ingested the nerve agent novacek the kremlin has denied any involvement accusing the west of mounting russophobia i guess this week for most go is richest modern economics a member of president putins party united russia and the lawmaker in the lower house of parliament the duma why is it that those who speak louder for the russian opposition run the risk of mortal danger. You choose to have any kind of welcome to conflict zone. Lets talk a good we may 1st of all about the opposition figurehead alexy vile need who fell ill in organized on an internal russian flight germany which ended up treating him said it was beyond doubt he was poisoned with one of the novacek class of nerve agents developed in the soviet union the kremlin denies any role in this if it wasnt them who do you think it was. Well many questions about that actually i dont think much about now well in any way. Do you remember angela davis she was one of the leaders of the American Communist Party back in the old soviet d
Taylor offer their thoughts on democracy and what it means today. For more Schedule Information ms. Booktv. Org or consult your program guide. And now, a look at the Nobel Peace Prize. We thank you for your attendance this evening. Or very late this evening. Or this morning or this afternoon, depending on where and when and the world you may be joining us. So no further do i will introduce our author and moderator this afternoon. Native born unni turrettini group and multicultural citizen excuse me living in norway United States france and switzerland. It from norway france United States a member of the new york bar had numerous years in law and finance in paris france and geneva. Her other works include the mystery of the lone wolf killer by pegasus books in 2015. After many years abroad shes not also with her family. An awardwinning author, curator and popular speaker the novel on rainy days from the award and the hemingway award infection. According to writers magazine the top debut