situation is only worse and it s so bad. everybody who decides to take up this job can expect to be murdered someday. as different as new coolants and score of botox experiences are they both seem to show two sides of the same coin the same principle play along keep your mouth shut or find a different job as the saying goes in russia either you re with us or against us. well one of the candidates openly against the policies of president putin is grigory yavlinsky the economist and former deputy prime minister is one of the best known opposition figures in the race our moscow bureau chief yuri or chateau talked to him about his campaign. mr yavlinsky you work in government in the soviet union after that a supporter of president yeltsin later you opposed him and he successive. now you are a presidential candidate why them is that you moment. because russian politics is
and they claim it s to protect children. even for younger generations but television is the most important source of information to fifty four percent of the viewers between eighteen and twenty four prefer the news from c a one. but insiders say the russian state controls almost all broadcasting stations and uses them as an important propaganda tool and their power expands beyond mere reporting. when i show it first my lawyer didn t believe just how powerful my station was she thought i was exaggerating but when the court rejected our case for the fourth time she started to realize something was very wrong with. the way agencies treated us journalists how they deny us access to courts arrest said protests search our homes. it all goes to show how little regard the state has for us. in the past years the
message is simple you are not welcome here. mr speaker let me turn to our bilateral relationship as i said on monday we have had a very simple approach to russia engage but be aware and i continue to believe it is not in our national interest to break off all dialogue between the united kingdom and the russian federation but in the aftermath of this appalling act against our country this relationship cannot be the same. so we will suspend all planned high level bilateral contacts between the united kingdom and the russian federation this includes revoking the invitation to foreign minister lavrov to pay a reciprocal visit to the u.k. and confirming they will be no attendance by ministers or indeed members of the royal family at this summer s world cup in russia finally mr speaker we will deploy a range of tools from across the full breadth of our national security apparatus in order to counter the threats of hostile state activity while i have set out some of
mean let s look back at two thousand and six alexander litvinenko he was a russian diplomats living in london he was poisoned with polonium two ten often that only four russian diplomats were expelled from the country now we ve got twenty three so that s a radical shift in the way the u.k. response to something like this you know certainly very strong words as bigger it was so. theresa may saying there that this relationship cannot be the same a bigot coming back to you this comes after theresa may had actually said and ultimatum didn t she for russia to give an explanation for what happened with the poisoning a circus cripple and his daughter and tell us what happened up to up until now. well russia of course did not really. cooperate in this investigation they russia said that they needed to have a sample of the nerve agent they really they completely denied that they had anything to do with that and they basically said that is was ridiculous it was kind
that those who are living in russia who aren t guilty of any crimes who are as she said abiding by our laws and our values will not be touched by any of this she wants to protect u.k. values and show that this is only going to affect those violating what do you k. stands for how significant of a rift is this in relations between the u.k. and russia i mean this is unprecedented we haven t seen anything like this in over a decade when they ve been young who was killed we really can t underestimate what the result of this is likely to be of course we had the russian an extension of crimea we had the downing of the plane over ukraine but this is something very serious the fact that it s a british citizen on british soil really is a violation of conventions between the you can russia or you know we ve heard from a truce or made that she has the support of her allies in the e.u. also from nato how much support has she had in the u.k. for taking this tough line on russia. she has