russia is dependent on its oil exports for much of its income and, of course, the country has very little control over what that oil price does on the international markets so in some ways his hands are tied but obviously there are things he can be doing in the short term possibly with trying to get the sanctions alleviated by the international community and also in the medium and longer term trying to diversify russia's economy away from oil so it's less vulnerable to this kind of dissent and crisis in the future, zain. >> incredible, those approval ratings you just mentioned, 85% especially given what's going on absolutely incredible but in terms of trying to get the west to lift those economic sanctions, i do want to talk about some of his option, of course, he could have choosed to pull out of ukraine which is what the west has been pressurizing him to do. if he chooses to make a move like that what is at stake for him politically here?