Its a local election but a test for Vladimir Putin the russian president s party takes a hit in moscows poll thats come after weeks of protests against the government so how will you deal with this set and is he losing influence this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im homage enjoy him its sparked some of the biggest demonstrations the country has seen in decades thousands took to the streets over the summer in russia after some of the kremlins fiercest critics were barred from a regional ballot but despite moscows attempt to silence them the ruling party lost a 3rd of its seats in the capital in sundays local election president Vladimir Putins united russia still holds a majority but the Opposition Communist Party has almost doubled its number of seats so what does this mean for the National Elections in 2 years time is putin beginning to lose his popularity well be speaking to our guests in a moment but 1st step fasten has more from moscow. Pretty interesting develop