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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 will be speaking to our guests in a moment but 1st step fasten has more from moscow. Pretty interesting developments here in moscow and also a politically complicated scheme that has played out for sure united russia the ruling party of lattimer put in has lost more seats here in moscow than ever before but on the other hand they still have a majority so its more like a psychological loss for a party that is simply not used to losing and has been having a monopoly position here in the city duma for such a long
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
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Countrywide welting that i mentioned in the beginning of the program it is coming on september 8th and its going to involve all 84 regions of russia not just moscow and those regions have huge disparities in terms of social Economic Political Development i know that youve been planning a lot about the moscow developments and we will talk about them in a moment but im just curious as an expert on russia have you looked at all into whats happening election wise beyond moscow i call pundits and i like to say were talking grand terms but no i mean i think seriously if you look at it local elections are very much about local issues woman thing else and its quite interesting that we have a situation in which you the way the old the old identifiers of quite what united russia stood for beginning to break down. And therefore i think that most of these elections really going to be in some ways referendum on just how well the local administration is is seen as deep. With what are sometimes serio