And Surrey County council is to hold a referendum on whether to increase Council Taxes by 15 . Government funding cuts, they say, have left it with no other choice. That is it. You up to date. Now on bbc news is time for hardtalk. Welcome to a Special Edition of hardtalk from moscow. Im stephen sackur. For 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. Vladimir putin. Externally, hes projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. But not altogether. My guest today is the most prominent leader of russias anti putin opposition, Alexey Navalny. Now, he has committed to Fighting Putin in the 2018 president ial election. But will his defiance cost him dear . Alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. You have been involved in Opposition Politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your position is perhaps
For 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. Vladimir putin. Externally, hes projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. But not altogether. My guest today is the most prominent leader of russias anti putin opposition, Alexey Navalny. Alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me here. You have been involved in Opposition Politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your position is perhaps more dispiriting, more depressing than its ever been before. Do you agree . Absolutely not. Actually, ironically, i can call Vladimir Putin as my godfather in politics, because when he came to power and the way he talks and the way what hes saying, what hes doing, the laws hes passing through duma, told me that russia is done with democracy and i should do something, i should join the opposition movement. But, you
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We were unprepared for russian response. We got a russian response and we were caught flat footed. Thats poor policy making. Thats what we need. Again, we need to engage russia and have a better idea of what theyre really thinking about, what their capabilities are, and then fashioning a policy that gets us where we want to get if not tomorrow over time. And its been bad for us, but also bad for ukraine because were in a situation where we made this commitment that we are likely not going to follow through on anytime soon, and at the same time ukraine has had crimea taken away, has been subject to this very brutal conflict. It hasnt worked well for either. If you would address this point because this is a very interesting point. Yeah, it might be nice. It might be even right to say if ukraine wants to be a member of nato, they can be a member of nato. If we dont have the stamina to follow through, our allies dont have the stamite farmina to fol through, isnt that getting sort of down a