united russia and putin i think many many many voters. do not take any more of a united russia because of many reasons but they do support which seems to so that's a big difference concerning your position i would say that in the open young that's the key point there is there is nobody in your position now to act and to be a vent to appear as a political leader so of course many people say ok be good putin did so that nobody could cheer as a person but that's not true because during at same time it was assumed the same problem opposition as a lack of freedom no they brought out why they did so that we saw we saw the people taking to the streets in their cars so to speak maybe in some in most it's a very early sense of the possible subpoenas but and despite what you saw the television we also saw just well and i think. now since there wasn't millions taking to the streets nonetheless it was a strong voice people wanted to be heard why didn't a strong political figure come out of that group them all together if they were so strong about what they wanted to say one of the other of what they wanted to see

the change why did you think you had cannot support the public for this challenge i see differences to be made in. the so demonstrations because you have a lot of people you heard people or people from the big cities at most once a pickle fork only three four five thousand dollars a month they feel like going actions were not fair if you like they don't have their candidate and they went to demonstrate because they wanted to put out something was not good it was not nice and they didn't story was for the restoration and you have the political groups who are in this demonstration so you have nationality it's groups who are. far far left where groups are you are you always group you and you have those are people like everybody or the back end soft spot off and i don't see you know the majority of the people who are demonstrating in the streets they were a people with those leaders they just do not recognize them to just not want them and they just. go for your euro so i see maybe this is the reason why put off. but

such a quite good result because i think of many of st paul voted for it better than expected in fact for her doing better than pleasure and also has been in politics for years you know i just want to focus again on putting including as a strong desire to stay in power because of its home in fact publicly said google didn't want to tackle the country's most promising problems of education medicine taxes and so on what do you think clinton's personal reasons for when you sleep hour and you touched on a little bit earlier discussion because i'm on that i think that's what pushing went forward in russia the united states and i know. they were in the state so they took aim right to make sure is to be attributed to the states now this is something that was done two years ago when you need to go from a disgrace and something else will be just the defined very go i don't know if you was the conservatism because they have to have a quarter of the states was distributed. so they sought to receive one very small

and i think in the next. six years i would say because i don't seem to get the change. we make a force what it's missing gives us one for sure. they seem to go just to be don't you know we were fairly similar in my opinion the next day as though to put you know just the situation very well especially about those demonstrations were here but the descriptions of russian politics are certainly getting more interesting alexanders lotsa blogger and writer joining us live here at our election coverage center thank you very much thank you very much. let's not return it to the election headquarters of the candidate who claims he can deliver russia into a prosperous future billionaire mchale procrit of large to fire for this there for us now is one of the five star what kind of reaction to the figures coming in really good results better than expected for the billionaire. p.t.s.d. haven't had the official reaction from the best that you can take the stuff that caprica. posies running as an independent candidate anyone in this presidential

election say he doesn't have the party behinds in here at the table to to give us their response that has been a surprise amongst many better than expected results of the maybe it's around seven and a half the time it takes to come in from his reaction it's a journalist and confidant of. tennis alexander thank you very much for joining us . in. a place at night a surprise to many people is this crisis. positive sign that a lot of people. vote for a new candidate a chance to run a campaign for five days or something. to actually as the figures show today tonight he actually has. russian nationalists has been doing political career for twenty years and mr journalist about certain points that's

a very positive sign we just started a very short campaign and when we started we told russians that we want to be in russian politics for coming fifteen twenty years so there's a lot to do in the future we want to move ahead we want to move forward and find new supporters for next elections. because the people getting the base do you think it's because they like mikhail prokhorov they his policies and they support him or is it simply but they keep getting an education base that you think that they just dislike everyone it. was hard to see how people vote general i think the question is become more and more like thinking emotionally exposure to one or another candidate so they think that probably is a kind of a man has been managing his business for for a while and a great wealth principle and dollar and has been growing. right. this capital is wealth that's what the country needs or wants big numbers of

g.d.p. people want to have biggest seller is so he's the right guy to manage this process of looking. at the fucking december and they were developing their election. things this time on the approaches that a lot try and make elections kind of marriage it will be a county down we're hearing a cause great again you think this is just great that's a great. i don't think so because all what has been done is good and eternal gives there may be a very new standard for very many countries in the west however our real political campaign might look. how it happened see that's. a lot to do for rush. because. you can't just consume to spend another how

a billion dollars to put more web cameras on sites where people vote but when you have no political competition when your public politics is being dominated by one candidate and his supporters is the dominant theme on television have you have only forty five days campaigning you have a very small budget just band. play where you are below or not same number even less because you have to spend money to gather signatures in your support before entering campaign so bill and is the worst financial situation starting campaign in the worst timing because it's only forty five days for you it's not fair. and a lot of people say that the reason that the opposition haven't think it's a fight is because of the divisions among the just things to make up of in the future could be the man to unite the opposition and be the voice of basically.

i think he's. looking at putting his numbers. above sixty i think for a purpose in which. the country is tired of quitting generally there's going to be more and more people who will be. voting for him but the problem of my fear might be their candidate for next election because he's ok can actually has both has to. experience less important more that. they say that killing us that's right and we did hear from mikhail prokhorov earlier in the evening if he still can get in about an hour's time we'll bring you the latest in that he did say he just a guy that he plans to study need let's go party state there's plenty as will be remembered probably be a much movement even if he doesn't win tonight in each. gifts are a first glimpse of the thoughts from nicole profile of companies like you in moscow

much appreciated right so. you're only trying to get a hold of. somebody in that simply this berkeley person of the same petersburg line ferry company. we couldn't get hold of him i gather we can't know pizza in school or can you hear a six kind of an ode in moscow here just to explain to our viewers you're a finnish xstrata vice pres you think pizza the ferry company either certainly him either star. yes i can hear you are not i guess but not like a street yesterday but if you had your say about who will rule russia for the next six years they want you voted for and why i'm interested to know i'll pose this question to last of course be a good mayor so you can take the floor out. yes well if i would have had about i would have voted for poor. i have been living here in russia twelve years and i think that all candidates were quite interesting and

good but what would have made lead to work for fourteen was that first of all he has a good track record he has to be like the current free stuff of the church or more and he has started reforms in social and efficiency field corruption field which are not yet finished the other candidates have been. less credible in this way but the debate has been quite open before the election so i think nobody has the sense of but i would have probably voted as two thirds of of russia or poor. and. that's the piece of your very real problem here and you are concordia what your last answer was but i just wanted to ask you what it's like being a business and working here in russia the government admits you know there's corruption in bureaucracy in a large scale they say they're going to do something about it struck live head off

i just affected you working here in russia. well. barcelona i haven't the. troubles with corruption i'm i'm bureaucrats see no more here than in the european union. various a lot of allegations of these but i haven't experienced the parcel. and i think ok sometimes for some say these things are in. place your thoughts that peter is still in simply this book is good to hear that still working in russia as it turned out ok for you receive. well this election is considered to be mainly defined by the internet of course a lot of new things happening here protests to support there's no shortage of common through the bad and our blogger and journalist tim kirby is in r.g.s. news center following the nats reaction to this election to break us up to date to

what's happening last we spoke with him in or result had time to think it now looks like putin is leading what is the reaction. i thought i'd say that we're having a lot of interesting things happening on twitter happening on the internet right now. because the chance to look inside the party headquarters for people claim to be right outside the communists are red with anger and may actually ignore the election results that may dispute the whole thing on the other side p.r.'s leader good news you're not although he's also equally as a greek does look fantastic. in his suit they're saying also to procure of camp things are very tasty it pays to support a billionaire but interestingly enough it's sort of what isn't being said that matters because opposition protester garry kasparov is saying there that in his micro blog that right now the u.s.

state department is not supporting them he really wanted to get more support from the west but everything is gone silent back to you. tube all right jim mcgreevey is live for us in our g. news room following what's happening on line on this election night. to go join me now with his take on the election is evolving into the current and comment that renaissance we can't it's all here in no rush to tell us the way that russia dealt with the economic crisis some people praise that is often cited as really one of britain's main achievements would have different leaders have to solve the crisis and i don't really think so because if you have an economy that has about twenty percent of g.d.p. accounted for by oil and you have the price of all of your main export oil fording significantly as it happened during the protests and in a crisis i think and any kind of. any kind of leader would have contracted

a significant so i don't think it's fair to say that a different leader would have been able to kill the a better way with the crisis and. there's a big worry that at the moment. russia's economy is very much dependent on the oil and gas revenues of this not enough diversity how much more is not going into the future and is it being addressed efficiently do you think the next president whoever he is is going to sort that out i think it's a very fair concern and i think the best way to think about this issue is what in economics you call the break he would call price these are the all price to go towards his need to told to have to balance his cold books you for years to go russian in a few fifty dollar oil. the balance of the books now this breakeven or price has increased significantly compared to twenty dollars this means that any significant power forward movement at all prices could be exposed to russian economy is very significant expenditure so i think it's a very fair concern i had we focused just a second on some of the really critics the president this huge protest movement

really unprecedented in russia's recent history i think we've focused on the third de facto leader of the group it's the next in the very least that people praise him as someone that could perhaps become a leader others criticize him as someone who could never deal with russian economic troubles my view is that simply as a leader and a possible politician well you know actually i was present at a meeting with the next time around there months ago and i asked him a question so what are your economic views and say she was very fast with his answers i actually don't think this case is sort of a pure crap economics program i think he's economics program is it's a political program that he wants not to run for president he wants to change the political system i don't think he did john church he has a very clear that you can see same sounds good but economically would start up with big brother actually what he said is that even to economic program that has advanced is a very good balance which it will be fulfilling his promises but again i don't think that this disjuncture election about me as

a scheme i've been politically i don't think he has a very good give any economics problem he's trying to change to the future but they do this for now i don't think this is the case of a good season i live in chicago first because of history nation's capital is you offer you very much for your folks to go to stay warm ok right let's go to the election h.q. of liberal democrat coverage of the major and all ski we will find nazis course for that arena ghoulish you're a good reader i. get a controversial figures in a sense that ninety going to split is coincidental to be trouble thirty years running for a fifth time run the last was the atmosphere like i described so it's a dud. well like i said they haven't been touted for the first time there are no new this election process so that mr is more or less somewhat of a festive business people are wide awake there are there are you know exploring of the options they're still saying and their headquarters but of course they're standing by their man a very flamboyant figure in russian and russian politics let's have

a closer look at the beginning of it what he's like as a candidate liberal democrat rather unusual speech by far bush's most boisterous bully politician. on the record at sixty five juveniles he is on his fifth presidential campaign coming wanted percentage of the votes in two thousand and eight his campaign slogan is little skis or it'll be worse. for the presidency to your drive against corruption and drug smuggling in russia farah food and housing prices controversy cost campaign promises included free vulture and free underwear during those days infamous for racist remarks and fighting with opponents. of the order for securing parliamentary immunity for the bridge and says coins into alexander the. presidential election two thousand and twelve on party. so here's a very colorful figure indeed he is known for picking fights during his tenure as

a state duma deputy chairman actually he is known to pick fights with women even those were all documented all caught on film he's not he's not shy to express himself he has made several rather controversial statements on a pretty much any issue concerning calls some say as he's a bit of a nationalist but again a very colorful figure on russia's political arena and today actually as a matter of fact he's marked that hospitalist by wearing two different outfits throughout the day one was bright red another one was a very interesting cannery yellow so. an interesting figure and his waiting for the results to be announced for the results color schemes aside news for you sometimes you know a lot more than nine percent of the vote looking at the screens now as the preliminary votes again for the central election commission he's running at seven point two percent which he expected more than this time around do you think will that be a disappointment. even in beijing because there is not

a period of this. well there is no spirit of disappointment here at the headquarters in fact some of the spokespeople of the liberal democratic party did say that they are going to wait for all the boats to be counted before making any official statements but they did say that if they believe has been posed has been somewhat controversial in their opinion and they promise to go support in order to vote but they're insisting that in fact is leading across the country they say that their member is on the road as a kind of party whereas observers on a lot of the electoral at the poll say since and they are going to dispute the results and they know that he's gotten a better vote than the one that is being broadcast right now. to be headquarters i'm afraid i'm going to interrupt i'm going to take a shot just over our shoulder from mr putin is coming to speak at the united russia rally we're hearing two hundred thousand people gathered looking at the screens

look who's running on the side president this well it'll be very interesting to hear what you've got to say i hope you got it translated for you i'm sure we will there's a huge huge cheers going up let's listen to them speak. but you must know it might actually get you that thank you here with this thank you for supporting our candidate. gnashing that. he's leaving election. and i feel confident that well when idea that and this winter and. see in them we all need it during march and that is the one year our country needs it is not because the moon is not. one of us needs this is making her like you and we will never give it away we will not give it away to anybody everybody of them is not let our we need victory for our country to be more

than you think truong and independent. nuts can do that but he didn't so our candy didn't you know he is the winner let him or put an i.q. that is yeah but if you were to friends your first and foremost i would like to thank all the citizens of russia who participated in the election. day and especially and i would like to thank those who have gathered here in moscow. i would like to thank you all those who support us. bolo our. big homeland. thank you everybody there are all those who said yes i see a great russia we did you i asked you once will we win. maybe we

will win and we have won maybe due out. in open and fair struggle. but i see it with you thank you i see about why did you thank you we have one here in an open and fair struggle but this was more than just the presidential election yes this was a very important test for assault you were national and for all of our people yes this was a test really whether we are able to clean which and independent enough and we have demonstrated if you don't use you when you want it that is that nobody can impose anything on us nobody can impose anything we have demonstrated that are people are capable and yet committed to one thing from another you a kenyan gives cyrus to the chief maternity leave from political problems. the

chris you only one who produces roy out of your russia is a nation and yours are powerless but to deny the people of russia have demonstrated in the idea that such actions such scenarios will not achieve success you know our country will be that you see what today we have won what. years is what we can best support the best majority of our voters we have achieved a clear victory in human ability just in that you know what will work honestly and hard you move and we will achieve success and we encourage you all. unite around the interests of our nation and our homeland i have promised you that we will win. right here and we are one. here glory to russia.

well very interesting we won in an open and fair struggle he said with tears running down his face in something you haven't seen in the past ten years he took a breath wait to see what he don't putin's face a very warm and hearty support as well of course for president but that is not a lot to say but here's. the thing is one hundred or so thousand people on my new house in red square behind celebrating what has just especially claimed as victory in this year's presidential election you will be heading to the kremlin it's almost definite for third term as president rosa say moved to tears by the looks of it talking to her at the open and first struggle asking russians know to unite behind him under party i guess as they enter into a new era let's take

a look at the numbers now we're going to take a search break and we'll be back with more coverage of the top of the hour so far out of preliminary results put lazy matter putin as leading the polls three points for some sense because later he's point five percent following him his really top rival again and he's gone ahead of the communist party coming in second he's quite far behind though and procrit of doing much better than expected better than zero mosque either liberal democrat been in politics for years with seven. percent and to be recovering at least ten is going to disappoint the camp tonight because you simply can't broker off so much early polls of how people may vote but you know so you vote three percent. back here so let's say it's looking a bit better at his fly but so the votes are starting up a still a lot of counting to do but as you can see boy for nowhere more than many people predict a lot of people predicted that maybe there would be a run off maybe that fits the facility pushing fifty percent wouldn't be reached by

fruits and politics is a moment. sixty three point five percent is where it stands now probably continue behind this up to one hundred thousand feet close in support approaches and i think this one to earlobes of the sun you bring your moralist a few moments to listen for correspondent the central election commission on the reaction in the atmosphere to condit's headquarters as well as experts of poring over those figures as they come in continue to do so voting on it safe and russia's presidential election well but very shortly. the official policy allocation giong phone called touch from the i choose option slipshod see my. city along the i r t's mine field costs and the street now in the palm of your posts. on the wall she told call.

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