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>> 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.