hello and welcome to the cross stuff full force here. we discussed some real in the the well, the thing called a landslide victory. it caught really of you with that to have an allergy. 87 percent of the both going so that it may uprooted for the 2020 volt russia presidential elections duties already come out. psyche to many millions of voters with costing that policy also paid a special advocate to those who came out the cost advice in russia's view despite the terrorist attacks. and you and i already know this, well, the citizens living in these territories have shown not just civic majority and

show coverage and continued to show it. no one as i thought, assumed and said recently, no one intimidated them. and it is impossible to intimidate people in this election. it's winter take all of course, and vladimir putin has left his opponent all well behind the 3 other candidates taking less than 5 percent of the vote was the communist party is nikolai hard to not, is in 2nd place to the new people. parties, lots of stuff, i can put that on top, running for the 1st time traveling, insert for me time reactions. be coming in all around the world, particularly the global style for lost in america, africa, asia. as the brick sol wishing is that it may put in the best of luck for a brand new tub of 6 years. meanwhile, has been mostly content inspection from the west. so that's hardly surprising. we'll be covering the rest of the bigger selection of the decades throughout the day here. this is the international, the

a good while, thanks so much for joining us. ro, an aussie international from a very special studio in the heart of moscow, but continuing our special election coverage. i'm role re sushi and i am rachel ruble. and we are after 3 days of voting. nearly all the ballots have been counted . bottom are put and has one more than 87 percent. meaning that he will leave the country for the next 6 years. yeah, the, i headed the russian essential election commission, basically saying that the assessment to all the voters, now it means it's a 77 percent turn out. that's despite the number of sabotage attempts are to charlotte davinsky spoke to us from the commission's headquarters earlier. here's what she had to say. she mentioned 12000000 attacks on the system during the election process a, it's a huge number. and despite that, people still to indict and manage to vote,

we had some 86000000 people voting in the selection. but i want to talk you through some of the bit she said about the cyber attacks. specifically. she said that they were full $120000.00 attacks. this was specifically on the online voting website. this is where some 5000000 motion citizens were registered to vote and attempted to make that vote. she says that they will also be c d o s attacks on traffic to website west people cache. they're both. and she said that all the different attacks meant for 40 minutes over the last 3 days. that side was fun. move on to those attacks. but she said, despite that, despite all of the intimidation and she accused the west of being behind these attacks on the online platforms, as she said, people turned out. she also talked about the target you to the terrorist attacks of drones in residential buildings. and she talked about those individuals who lost their lives when they were attempting to vote. although sewage attempting to

monitor the process. and she said, despite that there was no ability to influence the results. the technology that was invented just for pilots, she called these been pathetic attempts, and she said that they were just used to fortune and close if trying change the results of the selection. well, put the impossible to change what we've seen, which is a long slide. the election for president preach and who will now. so a 5th to him as president. and i just want to bring a one story that we heard from when, when you incorporated regions, we heard that one of the individuals was working in the election office that was actually killed as a result of one of these attacks. and apparently, within a few hours, her son turned up to replace her because he wanted to her memory in that way. by deciding that the best thing he could do is to stand in his mother's stat and ensure that people could come and cast that violets. it's all right,

we're joining in the studio now by the former prime minister of slovakia. young children, gorski prime minister. great to have you on with us today. thank you for being here cuz i want to ask 1st, how is slovakia? viewing another presidential term by mr. pittman, i think that the majority deal felt like what i would enjoy and to the the, the amount of that part of. so that's just take it to as a, as i mean information is it, but what it, what mr. permit as to what is the relationship these days between breakfast lava and moscow given the ongoing conflict in ukraine. uh yes, uh the uh, relations has changed stuff to the after elections in slovakia last

year. and uh, so lucky uh does not support the ukrainian position on uh ending the war a new. okay. and you're talking about permanent defeat. so the new prime minister. yes. yes. yeah. he's being actually he's, he's been closer with the victor, audubon. they've hungry. it has indeed they, they might say it was being reluctant to send money or weapons to keep, but i do understand slip back yet did send maybe 2 tanks and some munition to ukraine. is that correct? in the, after after stop, the new government told mr. pete, so slovakia would and should not sit or would not sent and the web us and domination to you. cain financed by government. the money?

no. so mike yeah yes. and is the feet so may be just for, for the beginning, did not, did not to stopped, did not stop the, the, the sending of web us. and i'm a nation's board by private to companies ryersons or, or on other countries in. so that goes back to peck dirty so he does that. they, they side stepped it. so instead of a slip back in the government settings, the back in government, money or weapons to your credit, they side sco. did it, didn't they go to it from the private companies, right? yeah, it's on the 2nd, right? yes, practically. yes. but yeah, you know, and just do 8 that way because i think that the, the use of government is not able to stop the you know,

the sending can weapons and demonstrations a totally from slovakia. but uh they say at least the so like, so like government who did not participate on sending the weapons in demolition street. okay. and did you think that will continue to see criticism from slocum, bucky, a toward the ukrainian strategy? because when we see countries in europe push back against the general european narrative hungry, for example, they, they get criticism themselves from europe. do you think so vakio will fall to that criticism. it's uh you are, you mean this isn't the of, of how good in positional of, of, of ukraine. do you think that so, okay, well for criticism from us. yes. again, body, yes. because so back here, as in this, the government has taken the position that the war on

a new gain can be stopped only by the pro my to affords not by, by who are. and that's why you would do not even the bermonte currently support the u. k that or the, or is, or the, the, the u. k. any and government going gone and going gone in the war and trying to do we over russia deal with what we're seeing now. mr. prime minister is so many european countries realizing they don't have the money, they don't have the munition. the politicians don't really have the political shelf life to survive much longer with his ongoing conflict. russia is clearly waiting in the unfortunate staging ground of your credit because this is a proxy war, but the roster of the collective west. we know this,

that's it. that's all well and good, but let's just get back to the election now. russian president vladimir putin winning by a landslide. meantime, russians around the world have been costing that ballots. we know there are russians in slovakia. do you know how the voting process went for any russians in slovakia? yeah. is around the world because yes, i am chairman of the silver glass and society is the lucky guy. and we supposed that the russo folds is still a lock you. i will try to do bro vulgar or to, to disturb a vote. think of rational citizens really being so back here on the rest and my ceiling in, but at this level and that so i was in the sometime if the of the earlier we have we have

announced that on this on the move the but at this level of about this level is offices that, that we would do is slowly glass and society and, and i, but i'm of a society is well like the do to do yesterday. i mean, in the, in the day of the elections in the russia, the do do in front of the russians, a embassy, a property, riley, me, and yes, it was registered. and that's, that's why we our people. i was not there because i was in the right size of the server but to our people got the police protection, spend to yes and about the mid mid today

the some russell for around. busy also around and popes into so lucky i've tried to try to the store to the election or the, the russians people, russian, people, uh, but waiting for a live photo voting get on the russian embassy. but to the police. and the did made them away, you know, never mind what people think about mister fit. and in slovakia we did see in russia a record high turn out of voters, 77 percent put in got 87 percent of the vote. how is the electoral process in slovakia the russian electro process viewed because we see a lot of criticism in the west, but the people in slovakia view it the same way that they see this as

a democracy and process of the i don't know the results of the russians at us and the likes of the in, in so back. yeah. because we, we did not, we didn't, didn't have to even allow that the exit ball was seen. but at this level because we, as we were afraid that, that it's going to be misuse. that gays to this rational soul didn't get in, but this last a that's why i don't know and to do it will be, but probably today it will be analysed for it's been lovely having it here, the former prime minister office, the fact you young child and i'll go to school, joining us here for us the election coverage. it's been a pleasure. thank you very much for your thank you. thank you as well. thank you so much. well, as voting was wrapping up on sunday evening, vladimir putin dressed russians from his election campaign headquarters. here's some of what he had to say,

a database to just get that despite the terrorist attacks. and you and i already know this, well, the citizens living in these territories have shown not just civic majority. they show coverage and continued to show it. no one as i thought, assumed and said recently, no one intimidated them. and it is impossible to intimidate out people. there are turnouts, both in the new territories. and in the border areas, the turn out is even higher than in the rest of the country. it's simply a response from the people to the actions, trying to intimidate them. those who do it, don't understand who they're dealing with. but in part, maybe it's a good thing that they don't understand. because in this case, of course, they will be defeated. now they are trying against trying to get somewhere there to enter. they were destroyed. almost 100 percent of them were destroyed. they moved forward by 100 meters. 25 tanks were destroyed. the enemy has concentrated a group of around $5000.00 in the border area. not directly on the state borderline

but somewhere in their immediate rear. but the overall loss is about 40 percent of these opportunities about 35 percent r, irrevocable, $25.00 tanks, dozens of armed vehicles and so on. if they like it that way, then in principle, it suits us because they mindlessly attack. it's such a meat grinder for them, it's even beneficial for us, let them try except to go. it was a few days before mister nobility passed away. some colleagues told me not administration officials. some people said there was an idea to exchange mister invalid me for some people who are in prison in western countries. you can believe me or not. the person who spoke to me had barely finished his sentence, but i said, i agree. but unfortunately, what happened happens only on one condition that we exchange him so that he doesn't come back, let him sit there, that's all. but it happens. there is nothing one can do about it. that's how life is. if you want to know my opinion on whether our elections are democratic or not,

i think they are democratic. or conversely, in some countries, for example, and your country can be considered democratic to using administrative resources in order to attack one of the candidates for president of the united states. including using judicial authorities, we have no preference for any of the candidates for president of the united states of america. we will work with whoever the voters trust, but the use of administrative resources, the judicial system. it's just become ridiculous and a disgrace to the whole world for the united states and for your democratic so called in quotes system. i have every reason to believe that we do not see any democracy, at least during the electoral processes in some western countries, including the united states today therefore accept the return book. please click here. after all of these are not completely stupid people sitting in all the institutions that have been working against our country for decades. you know what their problem is, in my opinion. it lies in the fact that after the collapse of the soviet union, there were

a very large number of specialists on the soviet union who could not do anything else, but fight the soviet union. and then with the russian and that arose in part of the territory. so they began to convince their political leadership and the public of their countries that they need to continue finishing, rush off, and in such a way that they themselves will not be left without a job. but still new generations of specialists are coming. they realistically assess the events taking place. i think they will be more sophisticated, but they will not change their goals with regard to russia. what as so many countries around the world, particularly in the global south or offering that best wishes to the crimes. and of course, the russian president vladimir putin, the west, as you can imagine, begs to differ about the legitimacy of this election. but for now, we'll have that over to autism or in a cause the river with details about, well, what is essentially an international risk and a difference of opinion. we are getting, congratulations, poor and then from all across the world. uh, the statements from coming in from countries like bolivia, nicaragua,

to just on those breakfast on the, on months also we had the coupon of and as well, which ones yet. so the 2nd and just recently china has spoken out saying congratulations of course, and also about frustrating china our each other's largest partners. and also that there are comprehensive suite 2 different corporate or just partners in the new era, which is exactly what vladimir putin was saying in his victory speech that the russia is on a new path, on a more independence. so from past, which is the goal and the mission, all vladimir who said, like i said again, we're getting congratulations from different parts of the world. are we waiting for breaks countries to join, then a little bit later as well as the african continent. but so far we've also heard from other veneers while i'm present as well. i called the sentiments of pretty much most of the leaders that were heard from so far. and that this is that the results show that this is a convince of victory. and also that the russian, the people have spoken and they clearly risk will clearly support vladimir fruits

in the future policy. and we've moved in 87 percent of the vote pollutant has completely won the war against the collective west. it demonstrates the values of the russian people who are leading the way for president vladimir putin. this victory, it will say marks a long road of vindication and recognition for a new russia, a great russia for a multi poto weld and for a world of balance. so i'll elder brother vladimir putin as triumphed these a good arguments for the world. and for the year 2024. congratulations. clinton and russia are triumphing on old battlefront. as for the west, we are here and nothing. there is mainly silence. just to read just some of the headlights fresh of the price right now in the u. k. for example, all these people that are sending the congratulations of the leaders of these countries. apparently they're just sports because this is what the headlines sites . that's what so for us to congratulate, who's in after his shamela x and dixie. of course, we've heard that this is a slight time election before the election. the even started with the president, congratulating vladimir putin before the board and event started. as i said with

a landslide victory, but of course, even they probably could not expect that the results with the so high that support for a lot of everything would be still hot. but again, they claim that this is all assigned that the elections are face. and other headlines that i'd like to revisit. lesson leaders, dismiss of hooton's, illegal poll victory. there's also lot being said in western media about this awkward silence were in fact this really awkward for the was not, it was not so much for russia because there's lot of if we can said last night in his victory speech, he said, well, what do we expect the what's to be signed up in applause. no, of course not because they are fighting us militarily. so russia is not expecting to hear congratulations from the west, but in fact, headlines likely to show exactly what is going on. and to be quite frank diplomatically speaking, is offered for the wes, because when it comes to diplomacy, they should congratulate the presence of the country regardless of their feelings if they want to continue their relationship forward. and they will have to, because lot of my boots and will be in power for the next 6 years. so they'll have

to sort of speaking eventually. so perhaps congratulations would be a nice start, but that's just my humble opinion. moving forward. i'd like to also point out something that marie is a harv upset when she pulled out the double standards of the west. because we heard from the german foreign ministry again, that the election of course, are not fair or not free, but the main issue that they're sizing is the fact that lot of work with them is in power. once again for the 5th term like this is the 1st time this happens in the world, we've seen this time and time again. benjamin netanyahu in germany themselves. they elect to the angular merkel for time. so that seems to be a problem when this happens in countries that don't do what they want them to do when they don't play by the rules when they don't play along. so no, we're not expecting to hear anything from the west is more headlines like this about a lot of may of who's in being assessed by the fact that this election is all assigned . but we are expecting to hear more congratulations from the rest of the world was low, as we know is very, very large. the yeah, autism or and it cause river, right. they're basically gauging reaction from the world and in, in,

in the wake of president food, in winning re election. he'll be here held for another 6 years. but you know, it's interesting, you're getting all these positive reactions from the global sound from the breaks the i see, i know all these groups around the world, but you're getting condemnation from your traditional g. 7 culprits. as per the know, am i the reaction is going to be more different as, as remarkable. oh, that's good. our thoughts now from archie contributor to or read who is in the studio with us. tara, thanks for being with us again. you know, i'd like to hear your thoughts on you, you're, you're spending your 1st impression election here in moscow to witnessing all of that. and compared to all the american elections that you've lived through. how, how are they different? because of course, we have an american election coming up in a few months here. well, you know, i, i worked as a stuff as you know for the on pen at the end for, for joe biden. so i was even at the inaugural for clinton and at the, you know, our gro, balls and all of that. so i remember all the pomp and circumstance around that and also the elections. and there's always been

a problem with our election integrity. and i can say that because i worked as a campaign worker and g o tv was very difficult to get out the vote g o tv. what i noticed here in russia is they make it so much easier to vote. you have a national holiday, people can take off work and they're able to go and vote. and of course the electronic has helped. they don't allow male in because that's could lead to fraud . but they do have paper ballots. i noticed talking to the international observers that were in other regions like the for new regions and the don't boss. there was nothing like the nonsense you've been hearing about forcing people to vote. that was all nonsense by washington, post and leg. it's the media. people were happy to vote and enthusiastic to vote for this president and obviously with an 87 percent turn out. you know, those are numbers that the us can even dream about. i mean, the highest was 66 percent and 2020. as i mentioned before. so part of that though

is making it accessible to people. so they even have like, um, the places where people can vote in the hospital here. where are people that are disabled? have people can come to their home and help them vote. so there's no mechanism slicks out in the us. so i think the us could really learn something from russian election procedure. well, meantime you got to come in from a, from the, i guess, new the re election. should we say russian president vladimir put, and he's actually taking a job on the american democratic electoral system, basically saying how, how them are kind of call you when the establishment is kind of, you're trying to prosecute the full. but president donald trump, you know, this is, this is a comparison to he, i mean, he, the trump, was, i, i, excuse me, put in was even saying that the state of democracy in russia is far superior to that of the united states. i mean, that's a hell of a comment when you think about it, because it is that we lived in america for a number of years. and we, we've, we've seen the way the propaganda works. you know, you're raised to believe that you are living in the beacon of freedom and democracy

that the best you and have human rights and this kind of stuff. and then when you leave america, i look back. you start seeing the true colors smell very, you have it and you know, it's, it's so interesting because we were raised to believe even when we're doing these for more is that it's something about saving democracy right when we're not practicing it in america. and that's been the point i've been very vocal about publicly, which got me in a bit of trouble as you know. so that's why i'm under political asylum. but, you know, frankly, i think that it's really remarkable how the west continues to try to, you know, talk about democracy or fairness or the cares about people when you have things like what's going on and gaza, and feeling that warm feeling the war in ukraine, against russia, you know that the us anita is doing and the nato expansion. um so yeah, it is really something and i think what's really interesting, you are back to your question about the elections. this was really been exciting to see is just the enthusiasm for people with their president. and they, and you know,

frankly i'm going to say it. and i've said this before years ago, i think president prudent has kept us from new killer war in the past. when the west has escalated and i felt a sense of relief when i heard he was elected personally, because we are on the brink and i feel his hand is very steady and he won't be as rash. and unfortunately, here i am an american, and i don't have faith like that in american politicians. and that's, that's something it does. it really does. you know, it's really interesting to me just going back to all the criticism from the west, about russian. and this is a sham election and all of this because we hear this a lot, not just about russia, but other elections in other countries. and even in america itself, you know, when they're talking about trump is a threat to democracy. so here we have in, in, in russia being re elected was 87 percent of the vote. 77 percent of voters turning out to vote for him in america, you know, 66 percent in 2020. that was really high to 66 percent of voters to turn out to

vote. but now we have, by the end, president biden, who has a 33 percent support from doesn't even really have that much more something in the forty's. i wanna say, right? i mean, but how, how can america say, oh, it's a try to democracy? you know, when? 87 percent true, but i put in because 87 percent of support or if, if people like trump is a threat to democracy when literally that is democracy at work. yes. and i mean, you bring up a good point because think about here with the voting and i know, think people realize this when you vote in russia, your vote goes directly to the president. but in america, as we know, and i'm not sure about great britain, but in america. yeah, i mean, you didn't even get to vote. you're a prime minister just sort of stuffed in the yeah. yeah, there. yeah, the, but it's been in our case. so unfortunately, like, let's say you live in texas, right? your vote will go right. it will go for republican, but it doesn't matter if you vote blue. it is the same thing in michigan. um, let's say your voting read and your voting for republican. it'll go democrats,

so your vote doesn't count. and that's very, that's another reason why people get so despairing and america because they feel like their vote doesn't matter because of the electoral college and the manipulation around that. and you saw the manipulation from the democratic national committee with bernie sanders, bernie sanders, right? that was a big example of fraud that happened, that's never been investigated or, or don't. what were even now in this election was with robert kennedy junior. and he's had to now change from being a democrat to independence, right? or a edit the prosecution against trump. right now, it's really are the 3 felonies right now. and they're all mostly sans and where you need to get a good point. because what prudent with president putin was trying to say to is that when you're getting rid of your political opposition and in a way like that, wow, that's yeah, right. and that's what they're doing. they're getting married. so in other words, they're denying a huge section of the country that wants president trump, and they're just basically to fall into the, you know, somebody's and use me because you know, the, the, the liberal left,

the democrat establishment, the process rolling cahoots with each other. they tried so hard to smith trump and to, to destroy him. it's almost like they've galvanized his support a base. you know, his support advice. now it shuts up more people are saying we're gonna have open trump. people that i've known who will always anti trump have now said, you know what, i've seen the dirty, scold dugger re. now i'm going to vote for trump only because he's still standing. he's still fighting, and i do believe that trump cares about america. i really, really do. he's a business man. he's a very wealthy man. he doesn't have to be corrupted or bribed or blackmail drove to the establishment is doing everything they can to take donald trump and break him. why is that? because they don't want a man who so popular was so many people for the left ending the establishment. exactly. and he is more economically focused and that's the key. he's not part of that military industrial complex that once more wars, so he's not interested in that. he's interested in economic competition, and that's something the democratic party has become the party war,

the warmongers and the some republicans as well. i mean, you hear some of the rhetoric from the do, i believe, right? not from trump supporters, but from others that want war with china, which is insane. you know, between america not so. yeah. it is interesting to see how people, the common person, the working person. you know, they're not interested in wars anymore. they're not, they want economic stability or infrastructure building in america. i want to ask about, i'm not sure if he's up to me when he spoke last night. but he was asked a question by an american journalist about alexis of only who, who died a month ago, and i'm glad i couldn't answer that question. he was also asked about evan goose vincent, american journalist use of being held in, in russia. but i'm just, i'm just wondering, you know, putting to answer that question about the, of, on a being potentially part of a prisoner swap. but we also see the western media completely ignoring in julian assigned for example, or gonzalo, mira and american american journal.