Cortines goal and. The to come up with a hello and welcome to to the point it is a question to introduce our guests beginning with about a municipal off he is a colleague here on the w. s russian desk and he says putin wants to keep the power and make russia great again. And im very glad to have with us alexander our hes a political scientist an analyst specializing on russia and his view as a whole this is change like the fall of the berlin wall in 1989 how explosive it will be remains to be seen and a pleasure to have with us sabina she is a correspondent a german broadcaster georgetown taddeo and she says sewing divisions supporting dictators subverting borders russian. Remains on the wrong side of history. So. Its seems like supporting dictators and subvert subverting borders used to come a bit easier to add a mere protean after protests over the rigged election in belarus began he waited weeks to affirm his support for the go last time armenia and azerbaijan clashed it took russia