a researcher at the international research center for defense and security and also a long-time moscow bureau chief at this network. always great to speak with you. this proposal that the russians put forward, they re denying it s out there. the russians and the americans have pretty much confirmed that it is. maybe one reason they re denying it is not getting a lot of traction, at least now we know where the russians stand politically and at least they re involved tip m involved diplomatically here. yes, a lot of this we already knew. it s not that different from some proposals or ideas that have been out there. but in something like this, when they really want to make a proposal, the devil is in the lack of details and that s one of the problems here. essentially what they re saying is it s 18 months, their would be this political transition period. you write a new constitution, you would have a referendum. and then you would have an election.