Party theyre going to vote that means over 50 percent of of the electorate and now we have quite a structured electoral system with more than 50 percent supporting the united russia. With like 15 to 20 percent supporting the communists the same for the nationalists like 10 percent 4 for the socialists less than 10 percent for the liberals who are which are too liberal to unite if they lose the elections if they are not popular its their fault they cannot unite you cannot provide agenda they cannot position themselves as a russian Political Force as now while they cannot present him as a russian politician he is much more popular in germany then he is he is in russia his rating never exceeded 2 percent and i think whatever when israel will have not a lot in a russian as well as for 20 baron as far as has his rating is 20 percent at the moment not bad all we have is that of course of course but. I tell you. The there is no such independent pauli and cannot be you know my considering this
Ingested the nerve agent novacek the kremlin has denied any involvement accusing the west of mounting russophobia i guess this week for most go is richest modern economics a member of president putins party united russia and the lawmaker in the lower house of parliament the duma why is it that those who speak louder for the russian opposition run the risk of mortal danger. You choose to have any kind of welcome to conflict zone. Lets talk a good we may 1st of all about the opposition figurehead alexy vile need who fell ill in organized on an internal russian flight germany which ended up treating him said it was beyond doubt he was poisoned with one of the novacek class of nerve agents developed in the soviet union the kremlin denies any role in this if it wasnt them who do you think it was. Well many questions about that actually i dont think much about now well in any way. Do you remember angela davis she was one of the leaders of the American Communist Party back in the old soviet d
A government thats mistreating its most Vulnerable People in violation of its human rights of the geisha and why has it done so little to crack down on organized crime and the politicians who benefit from it. Its a start of a welcome to complex own weve seen more than 2 months of government protest sometimes violent when is the government going to get the message and resign were getting a lot of different messages from the protests but were also getting messages from those that are not on the. Actually the protests started 2 months ago but they combine different messages some of the messages those messages that are for better judicial system or more justice and for fight against corruption these are messages that we hear and we dont want the truth are still in our politics whether from the opinion polls this is pretty clear 70 percent to distrust the government and the personal confidence rating of the Prime Minister has dropped to just 20 percent the lowest rate in years so the crowds
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficul the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will have senators participating live then virtually as a result of that its difficult to determine to go in ty, seniority and we both come three witnesses the assistant secretary of state and the bureau official for the European Eurasian Affairs and Principal Deputy assistant for western hemisphere fears. We appreciate you being here. We will be talking about china obviously that presents us with manyy challenges and opportunities. There has been a lot of legislation introduced and there is a bill we introduced earlier this year to bring together as many as possible so the minority introduced ase bill senator schumer is the lead sponsor but this is not a partisan issue that is an American Issue. When i put the bill togetheren originally come i did so to