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HARDtalk is in Moscow, where the weather is freezing and the climate for political opponents of the Kremlin is even more inhospitable. In 2011 there are Russian parliamentary elections, and in 2012 a presidential vote; but there is no sign of a mass political movement capable of challenging Putin or Medvedev. Why?

Boris Nemtsov is one of the leaders of the liberal opposition and a former deputy prime minister. He has just spent two weeks in a Russian jail after a political protest. Stephen Sackur asks him why more Russians aren't prepared to follow his lead?