instant. hello and welcome to our team is live coverage of the presidential election for a very heart of the russian capital with the kevin knowing of a call the good news about it tonight but kevin as we all know voting have now come to a close after tens of millions took to the polls across the country that's following of course the most heated election campaign in russia's recent history was an adjustable get the first results early on monday of course says. throw the night

for the first time the next head of state gets a six year term for a constitutional change back in two thousand and eight. will turn out to know still to be a party following the increased public political activity of the other two today where demonstrations both for against the government sort of months for reform but also stability in itself. that's right there's been a number of record breaking observers with hundreds of thousands monitoring the polls and there's also a unique project of live web cameras so anyone can be in a so called online armchair observer. but let's get straight over the show we are under now to the nerve center is the word of this election dissension election commission commission here in moscow which is collecting the results from across the country as we speak caltrain a group chokers there live for us tonight is going to bring yourself today let's make the first sort of call there right now today good evening was it is the way this is the your bleeding i know many people actually show them sometimes the first

faces really work those are the sensitive poll results yet whether you would because you can see below kevin hello and he says indeed the moment of truth now that all the stations were shut down in the western most city of kaliningrad the median bardon figures has been lifted and we see. this calculator life on these cranes of the central election committee. meeting on saturday two likely putin. was leading now sixty one points eighty one percent coming in second days i mean that these are gonna. be the new communist party of prostrate are you. getting seventeen point eight percent number is that a candidate from the liberal democratic party of russia. years receiving eight percent of the vote. into condoms a candidate. getting seventy two point six percent has no knowledge only the last on the list is. near on us here as we point six percent he is

a candidate from a just russia not sure of how is it now the turnout in the presidential election of two thousand and twelve is reported to stand at your feet to the six groups sons with these elections definitely goes down in history as the most helos a morning toward if you want the most transparent one and by far the most expensive or equipping all ninety eight thousand polling stations across the country almost doubled the initial cost of the votes and the price of c.c.t.v. system this nation wide web cam system cost over three hundred million dollars also these presidential election has set a record. in terms of a number of watchdogs almost a million observers including seven hundred international observers have been closely monitoring the votes now the most recent nationwide ballot the december for a problem for elections in russia where america by accusations the boat had been

rigged to all those accusations were behind the government's decision to equate old polling stations with. cameras with transparent ballot boxes which and allowed more observe us and that was also. a record number of volunteers who signed up to money toward this process on this single day the fourth of march congress across the country reporters almost five years of media which has been available on the websites of several hundred websites on the internet so we see if there is a strange thing about him or question outstanding leaders sixty one point eight percent both. sides who got the biggest party also came in second in the december or parliamentary elections ease this number to their seventeen point eight percent oppose and coming of age thirty is like the measure in all skewed by far the most flamboyant politician in most countries will see the main entry you know as of now

happening whether they'll be the second round like him or push him doesn't get that much needed fifty percent of the vote but as of now he has. more than sixty percent support of the population. that you could read that you mention goes on precedented web cameras that have been put out this of course is russia's sixth presidential election but really it's been made and is seeming to be much very different standing out tell us more. you say hardly here because it's very low to hear so many journalists from here it's what mentioning that presidential election this time around is different from the previous one because least on the president will be chosen for five or six years and a pledge dinner fujinon gets the court if supported by the people he has constitutional rights to serve not one but two terms in a row which means that he could stand the same power for another twelve years again

if he gets the needed support of his people who are still there is intrigue can be there whether he will get the much new fifty percent of the old ballots all votes are counted and they will be a second round needed. or not and if so the question very much alive at school give running against in that second route if this happens. ok country not graduate not live from the central election commission headquarters we of course will be joining us throughout the night for the results as and when they come in there in central moscow we're assessing the plans and prospects for each of the candidates are it seems to me treatment with genco is gauging the mood and team putin's headquarters in central moscow are now joins us live. and there's really good to me to be the. good the front burner of course of the kid the front runners campaign a squad i should say must be pretty confident of the victory we just heard from you

catarina there and the first exit polls are putting through tonight fifty eight point three percent but it's premature to celebrate before of course the official results are in what's the team getting up to right now is they're waiting for these results well it has been pretty agitated over the past five to ten minutes we've had a live transmission of mr truro the head of the election committee right now which puts the blessing of bush in that sixty one point seven percent to fourteen percent of the votes have been processed these are preliminary results that we've just heard being broadcast and it was a modest way of round of applause actually here which means that if these results say the same polls these are preliminary results in just fourteen percent that means the person will win this presidential race without a second round without a runoff well basically all the people that i've been talking to have been pretty relaxed pretty confident about political experts and prominent cultures the new

figures that have been around here around three hundred journalists also have been pretty confident of letting up to some when because he despite the round of protests that we've seen over the past couple of months remains the most popular political figure and for all of us to go. better understanding of what is counted as about what the campaign was focusing on the secular got back she got out the other says the candidates. to be abusive to time presidents actually try minister and face of the united russia party. the record to gin points to stability he secured after the chaotic e.l.c. years praised for overseeing a booming economy the establishing russia's presence on the world stage. the presidency modernization fighting corruption maximizing russia's impact in international affairs controversy criticized for centralizing power in russia and

staying at the helm too long. for personifying the problems positions and aspirations of modern russia. presidential election two thousand and twelve r.t. . so we've got him a person is the favorite for this presidential race the figure that we've just seen sixty one point seven percent is even higher than the public opinion poll suggested from three different centers the father mosco opinion polling foundation f.o. am and the sea on which gave him around sixty percent he got sixty one point seven percent and this is of course despite as i mentioned the wave of protests that we've seen over the past three months following the parliamentary elections with a lot of people thousands of people taking to the streets suggesting that russia needs a change in its political scene a change of leadership and the year the fact that blessing of putin has managed to adapt in his electoral campaign to this changing environment become more open to

opposition also reducing the. minimum barrier for political parties in the future to come into the lower house of russian parliament from seven percent to five percent and his social promises this is also a wall boosted his ratings from around thirty seven percent popularity in january to sixty six before the elections. demetrius are carrying here with a new set of high there could see tonight it's still early thirty's you know there's a lot to be current a lot of books still coming in of course course throughout the night the big question. is do you think putin going to break through unscathed and avoid a runoff vote here what you've been saying so far if he does a boy that well then comes next to him and his team in either case well in any case whether there will be a runoff or not there will be a lot of hard work that goodson and his team the campaign here will have to go

ahead with if there's a runoff then of course they will have to prepare a very hard when they have another three weeks of very hard work to prepare for the second round if there isn't they should also be aware that there might be another zero. of course of the protests around the country that we've been seeing with the process remarks and they'll have to be ready for that but we're also hearing that thousands of people are preparing to come out into the streets in support of the candidate and also of course will have to work really hard to maintain the promises they have made during his actual campaign and from those who believe in terms of his social policy around five trillion rubles one hundred seventy billion dollars he has promised to allocate for the social program under him twenty billion dollars of that to increase the salaries of public sector workers and. doctor these are teachers this is the military and that of course requires a lot of work to do have. to be true just me he was really getting underway going

to superman i was not a square room looking to. show up so that later a lot of people turning up the street so we could see it looks pretty much and so they do but they're pretty much full of people thousands. now live from the campaign h.q. . i'm sure sir later in the program as a top tips towards getting the official result here in moscow i just want to bring our viewers up to date with some of these results that are coming out of course like haven't said very early so far at the central exit committee how it's pledging their putin at sixty one percent not just gone ahead of the communist party at eighteen or so percent and first time around or procure a at seven point five percent fifty percent of the votes of the votes counted so far but let's take a look back at russia's previous presidential elections and how they turned out for

the main candidates back in the year two thousand and three have the current candidates ran the vote sign each other that was one place here voted against almost fifty three percent of them felt secure his first presidential term the runner up communist. again good luck is to god and he secured a close to thirty percent and that vote is what liberal democrats outplayed zero mosque each took only two point seven percent well four years later putin secured a bigger victory breaking away with a fifty point lead over his nearest challenger betting two thousand make putting most knowledgeable just on the course and to me to misread it was wrote today not years ago those who cheer for failed to just know that eighteen percent journalists came to rise compared to his results back in two thousand getting almost ten percent of the votes there just mentioned over a shoulder of one of the campaigns and here are some pro boots in the rally outside and there's a lot of people out over a shoulder bellevue's

a sitting on the street. and you know young people it's annoying to a lot of young people now looks like i think it's fair to say we can save thousands it's just after nine pm here in moscow the posts have closed in the western most enclave of kaliningrad those votes being counted in people already out on the streets of moscow here gathered on my nationalist group which is just outside the kremlin you can see the stage has been set up people getting ready for a celebration i guess it might be too early because the question tonight is will we go to a second round and that's all discussing throughout the exactly at the moment it looks like the recent one is going to play for tonight because of course that fifty percent steve fifty point zero percent credit rating has to be crossed otherwise it goes to a runoff election right now we only have fifteen just to clarify precise of the vote counting right ok let's switch our focus now from the election from going to putin's making challenge a show we'd love to use correspondent probably not say five

a communist trying to get the run off election headquarters by that this is not he's a guy most of all of the time to be elected to office been going to ninety six he was close to clinch a great trip we don't forget guy. as you got much hope this time around. well i mean mr zyuganov has been in politics one hundred sixty seven he's sixty seven years old he's got so much experience and his party having you know that twenty percent of the voters behind him if he is a contender to reckon with whether he's got a strong hold at the moment we'll have to see until those results come in but as i said you know the communist party has you know it's moved from ninety nine to one to what it is today from the communist party of the soviet union to what it is today called because i mean it's probably of the russian federation the center of the candidate guillotines you get out of sixty seven chance to choose the communism

from before his time the record second in all presidential elections since the end of the u.s.s.r. the two thousand and twelve votes will be his fourth plan for presidency free education of polish a legal immigration and introduces this three stops in passports controversy juggler's communists usually vote restrictions for you on the big issues abroad for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners just contented in just a working class. presidential election two thousand and twelve on fortune. mrs gano has been very open about it denouncing voting ratings at eight zero with this election he's a him and his party are looking at the voting electoral commission how everything in fact is going through they have around three hundred thousand observers around the country looking through how people are voting making sure that this doesn't happen again as a loss in elections or some you know people contending those elections this time we

did have a press conference early on and we're just waiting now to see what's going to happen what the news i people here are anxious to find out what those it was also so we're getting phone calls. you more about what's happening from the communist party with the. ok well we just want to say thank you for bringing us that from communist headquarters there will be joining you again throughout the night getting updates as election night continues here and again in russia and on our t.v. with our special coverage. of the ballots are counted are crossed russia millions of eyes around the world are keeping watch with plan your questions and expectations on where the next head of the kremlin will take the country and we can all get some of those answers from one of the architects really of russia's foreign policy constantini cutchogue he's the deputy head of the state

duma foreign affairs committee thank you for being with us once again if i can put here on our c e o what are your expectations for how foreign policy could change in the next six years. well. everybody remembers mr bush for the first. time for the power of the most general question was who is mr putin going to need to put that question in a longer because everybody understands mr putin is what is true to expect how does he support us a bold move the mystical for important. context and indeed changes. the that's the most change just to take place in our domestic politics while the foreign port of seattle continue to keep its continuity for the simple reason that foreign policy or russia is very much keystone russia mentioned national interests and these national interests are a different take on key to

a portal here if. you want it is a prothesis we are taking place in the global downturn we want to be treated fairly him home. on legal grounds and of these will not change and definite near russia will continue kowtowed toto toto promotes. to promote he newman writes to promote democracy to want to promote the same they'll use the char shared by most countries in the discussion as we head into a new era under a new president not because it could mean a faction foreign policy in the way that other countries deal with russia on many countries it will be may be crossed on some friends list all added to the friends list will go for there will not see the continuation of the recent developments where certain countries try to or certain politicians in

certain countries try to a diligent diligent demise of the russian election campaign in the russian elections for the simple reason they did not like me they have the possibility of these elections this is not a fair approach and hopefully we will come over that period and russia will be treated as an equal partner by all gone just because russia is neither as an equal partner for peace is an equal partner for peace done chris million general problem has been a global problem of the world cannot be solved without crossing for dissidents because not a focus of the going on syria and the way the russian wants to handle the ongoing syrian crisis east victim there's a lot from a lot of the other human listening that is not going to change in any way in any way as we continue into the in this edition is syria is still very much complicated it's not black and white and the russian position was all just against interprete think of the situation as black and white beer or not trying to support

a certain politician their way mr us of if here has to go here is to go but these should be a decision by the people of syria not by. people hold their distaste for medical or russia or any of the current they're in this position to steer change in case the people of syria will take this this season be they want to have a different story to different governments they will have to accept that there's any other country but there would be the decision of the syrian people not of the security council will be there to give it a little thank you ever so much for coming in to till tuesday night so constant constituents it's much appreciated thank you. ok well look there's election coverage in europe to go with a tip of the opposition protests against the duma to make the kobo claims of bribery. should be made the headlines. first his claims from the treasurer a senator from the d p s i then what's the biggest focus of attention in this

election and you. well know ever since of the december dubai elections it's been largely consistent and he'd been focusing on maybe a cause for free and fair elections in russia as well as what came out of these calls which is the opposition movement in the country again prominent features of opposition activists and complaints be it in the lead up to today or also can place coming from today also some russians russian voters seems they are stressing that the russians today has a lot of choice for example so they will vote said with a protest just for a meeting they just voted for a party but may not even believe in place as a protest trust or against united russia or portent so all of these a feature featuring prominently in the european press also a lot of analysis though on the growing younger movement opposition movement in russia they're looking at what they call a demographic shift in the country perhaps what the how this could change russia after the elections and as far as the e.u.

leaders are concerned they did to issue statements such as soccer the latest summit they had saying that they want to take a wait and see attitude to see what will happen after the elections have been good assess the positions of. but now again it's still preliminary wolf we're seeing a continuation i mean reminder to us here in europe but there are more reaction certainly going to come after after these elections as europe wants to see how these will impact russia relations. although obviously that of a person getting the most attention or did i think i think we've lost tested under the law so i took us to be coming back to a europe perspective a little bit later in the program french ever so much of that is we've got a lot of correspondence going life each going to bring to our viewers where it will be keeping you on the ball with it now as we speak millions of dollars are of course being counted across russia in the six presidential election in the country's history this is the first election where russia's leader will be given

a six year man there's also the first time a billionaire is which is a great thing in the race to. the book maybe god help the cause so far but he states in the place i'm going to pretend to meet him it's a do with the first arriving field victory twice in a row and only once has the election gone to a second ballot that was in ninety two ninety six when the front runners are pretty serious and communists cannot be as the governor of came face to face. quote the third place called according to the polls of the major not the centroid to fail several times to get the job but it's me making his mark in russian politics and setting up the first officially sanctioned opposition to the soviet union back in one thousand nine hundred one. the candidate liberal democrats love of your juvenile state by sharks which is news to destress believe politicians. on the record at sixty five juveniles keith is on his fifth presidential campaign coming

on to percent of the films of two thousand and eight just complete solution is juvenile speak for it'll be worse. for presidency the two you're trying to get to corruption in. so to leave russia in syria food and housing prices controversy pounds tamping promises interest free fall to the free underwear. infamous for racist remarks and fighting with opponents. of parole for securing parliamentary immunity for the money britain says poisons alexanders if you dig up. presidential election two thousand and twelve on party. well more next time if we keep you sat on the pulse of russian politics for years is our very own piece of the valve going to see tonight that it's very exciting no here's what i thought i never expected an election like this i'll be honest with you i dreaded the election because i didn't think it'd be interesting how. it's interesting because a lot of people are going home plate i would have my go to vote we could see them

on the streets and i hear some of them we've seen there the protests there are things going on up to this almost saw you just take you see what you think about this election why is it different to the bigger question the answer no sure live like this but it's the silent majority that has come out and see western media likes to focus in on the liberals and the urban areas and that's all nice and fine they have an interesting message and i think putin listen to it ok but the silent majority is come out and vote the turnout is higher than expected so the silent majority that everyone might forget about western journalists don't go and talk to you because they're not interesting because they don't say the right thing so ok so this is what's the most interesting thing about the election i think everyone's learned a lot of things about this election and about russian politics and how it is dynamic in changing a and democratic base thing in a way that these protests these hundreds of thousands of people that we've seen out on the streets was kind of a push for that i will internally absolutely book you see the pictures of main

codes and everyone having a great old time people out of the region say things are better than ten years ago but we want to live like that these people are spoiled in moscow and that's a lot and i think there was the reaction there the message is is there a lot of goodness out in this country go astro irs. a lot more has to happen but it's happened for poor people in some places you know. as you say and we don't have all the songs up front of it for the show going to go it will be so you basically banks have so much trust up to ninety. twenty three very large addition to you that we're going to get back to the studio for a service about. ok let's show and continue to introduce you to the contents of buffett's russians talk next we're going to. profile the only first time around and it's starting tonight because. the candidate because of the popular billionaire estimated fortune eighty billion dollars. the record keep those precious metals giants got its legal and sold out before the crisis

satan himself leads. the president's privatized they should exultingly you standards in production releasing because other posters controversy. to chevelle two thousand and seven arrested and charged with organizing prostitutes for a christmas party cleared two years later. as owner of the indian you jersey nets basketball team and looking for a white house forty six. presidential election two thousand and twelve on forty. four. but in recent years the internet fund doubtlessly been a key tool for voters and campaigners during elections next specially this time around here vassar blogger and journalist tim curry is keeping an eye on line for us at the arts news center let's check in with him tim what is the looking like there on line for this russian president so i want to chance this time around well actually enough to keep his thing that's being discussed on twitter it's actually

not really so much elections themselves but the floods why because some interesting trickster was able to manipulate the front to create a fake account for the ambassador from the ide states to russia. and that with this fake investor the account he was able to throw out all sorts of like awful things like erections are a total fraud we're going to do this and this and this and you know what's interesting a lot of people bought it even though on the person's up page the fake a best news page it's written it's fictional tons of people especially people who support the opposition party and spreading around all over a very very interesting development i twitter that's for sure soft and a lot of other people have been showing some interesting but really questionable videos about some fake ballot stuffing happening in the caucuses why everything parents capping in the caucuses i don't know but that seems to be where a lot of these videos are coming from. solving. interesting interesting developments.