It's not every day that a rural meeting involving Russia's ruling political party gets national attention - but that's what has happened today.
With local elections due in the Smolensk region early next year, President Putin's party United Russia has controversially nominated a man who happens to have the surname Zelenskyy.
Alexandr Zelenskyy was picked because he already sits on the local city council.
russia has seen what Ukraien were able to do with the right man and decided to copy it .....?
