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hours ahead as our special coverage of russia's presidential election continues earlier our interview show spotlight discussed the vote that was coming up and that is now art. we'll look at. its technology innovations all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future coverage. hello again and welcome to the structure of the interview shall apart i'll bring our friends today we're talking about the presidential election in the show so this

is it the voting is over and just moments ago we heard the latest alley flummery results this election was a very special it's the first time after a constitutional reform that russians elected a president for six years instead of float moreover is being the most expensive but the most transparent voting as anyone can watch it online so well that very special election the couple while still in russian political list which will discuss it now live with editor in chief of the moscow news two was at the head of the general political science department at the high school of economics needs to pilot coughed . up. russian such cost albums doesn't next president election communities across the country the broad unknown daisy counting the ballots and processing the date from russia's six presidential election is also the first in which a president is elected for six years instead of for the fine candidates were prime

minister why do you believe in anything for her and also the three leaders of the political parties represented in the duma communist he did not is you cannot leave iraq to liberal democratic party why did you not ski and soon gave you enough of a russia party the election was preceded by beats and campaigning and the biggest pro one anti government rallies the country has seen since the time of young what provoked a heated political debate with the results of december's parliamentary vote which handed a majority of seats to the ruling united worship. leading to fraud accusations and mass protests in response to government promised the most transparent presidential election in russia's history nearly two hundred thousand where cameras were installed polling stations across the country the online monitoring system which cost over three hundred million dollars allowed anyone anywhere in the world to log

on to our website show one oh i broadcast the russians cast in their ballots. how gentle until really only thank you very much for joining us on the show well first of all gentleman the the the font up chest in there many of the the public opinion poll company had published cruel luminary results just a couple of days before the for the actual election and there it predicted that putin will win in the first round well this is pretty much the same that we are having today at this minute when we are hearing the first results from the from the central election committee well here here's the poll here's how here's how the public opinion polls over there has been predicted that the voting will be well how accurate is that how how how good were were were they of the stairwell

will you. trust this year as i believe saw because this approach is so for. curing the poles of examples it's not the first time. so. very very well equipped. of a lot of them are much more from from the western experience although personally i trust most of these figures. there was information published during the last couple of weeks that putin's popularity was rising over the over the last month an expression over the last life while the two weeks before the election that he really he really. sort of a breakthrough in the polls in the popularity so good but he didn't seem for me you didn't seem to do anything special so do you believe this is so and why is that happened. but i think it's probably true that the the protest movement slightly bent out of steam. in that they didn't quite know how to take things

forward. a big problem of the opposition is that they don't really have what i think a lot of people would be god as being a strong candidate if someone like alexina valley would have stood who is more on compromising towards the authorities than anyone who's standing in the election then i think that we could have actually seen a much more sort of close run thing. but i think that you also have to say you know look at some of the methods that have been used by the pope putin come i mean it's clear that everybody who was pushed into luzhniki and i went around the stadium that day and saw the hundreds and hundreds of buses which were there from the city government there were even moscow city government school buses and lots of accounts of people who had been told look you have to go you can have two days off for coming along one day or something like that here all of those people were told come

along from us and it's or something like this and the does think the problem for putin is that this might fly in russia and put to the rest of the world it doesn't look quite right it doesn't look quite like a free and fair election period but you have an impression that putin wasn't actually afraid of confrontation that the only thing that he was afraid the media still is afraid at the moment is that is that maybe not everybody will trust these elections to be legit and he was doing his best to make them edgy it is indigenous so you agree. the main intrigue of this election is not about who will win it was clearly furious yes putting on the second round would have been fair. because i think i think we had even here somebody who may really close putin but nobody in the nobody really did oppose him i think to be honest i think that the real probable level of support for putin is somewhere around forty five to fifty percent

. but you know he didn't have a rival. challenge him seriously. and now that we see the second place or for the same leader of companies you know if you go in offering a twenty years or so and so people didn't buy it therefore again the result was predictable but you are right the main issue. election is the legitimacy and. to legitimize this is the big concern because you know this is open war and the global war within russia we have some opposition groups who would definitely. say it wasn't free and fair and international community. as hero or quiet attentively because people therefore it's a big concern now these are the only fresh face that we saw during this russia were

. profit off the t.v. billionaire. but he said i'm not in a position to put in i'm like an alternative i mean we have the same platform we we we we want the same thing i laid we have buddies but but i'm just for those who are tired of putin then they can vote for me but isn't this a pretty strange it's a true platform for for a presidential campaign you know i think it's i just think it's a little bit too much control yeah i mean you know we have someone in grigory yavlinsky who's been a fixture on the russian political scene for you know twenty years like the rest of them got twenty years and he's not really a serious candidate for president but a lot of people who like the kind of liberal slash social democratic politics that he stands for he's not really a threat to anyone and i couldn't really see the point of why he was excluded from the ballot you know you could have you undertake you know presenting the copies of

the least of the signatures of well a few supporters and he violated the law well you see i don't know why. they give me a good example i mean you can make the same kind of mistake when you when you when you send you back in for a visa and you didn't get at least another reason just you made a slight mistake you either leave the wrong picture i mean you you know he you're pretty good you know that's how this stuff is when. they have a. very nice lawyer. and now i wonder why this mistake so it's to me it's very strange well you know you know i think you asked about the proper off as a real rival of putin but ideological if you leave the board a center right candidate saw there for a little profit of his soul while on pushing this is this is maybe why he said i'm not i know turning to have but not opposition because this is let's see the latest

results we have heard them from from the central central action committee when i ten minutes ago in the news but here they are wildly out of this minute is that we having sixty two percent for putin seventeen for us and seven point five four of which is a pretty good result isn't it isn't it because because he he's a he's a new cover he only just learning so i think that the something that probably our viewers have to maybe bear in mind here which is i think that a lot of the people who voted for any of the candidate putin's. really we even went into the into the polling station not even quite knowing who they were going to vote for who just knew they were going to vote for someone else a lot think they found any of the candidates ideal you know like we said i think the person who probably gained the most out of this election campaign wasn't even standing it was alexei navalny and of course it's very controversial but we'll see what he comes up with tomorrow when he launches his protest and we'll see where

that might just stay within the law and managed to stay peaceful but i think that he's gained an awful lot of support and i think he has his eye possibly on the next election campaign how do you think so well i know the position well i actually i prefer to hear your opinion do you do you want i am less clear when do you believe that an internet creation like alex a no one is who is against he said first he is against he's always he he doesn't trust he's against then well he's a guy like one hundred percent hundred percent computer computer virtual like person is most well he is popular or like do you think that he made make a cabinet for the next political political action like four years ago in the various nine five six years now i believe so you think he has a good chances to become a politician a real politician and declaring not just that he is against his positive program

and he has a million million personages. to participate in municipal elections in resident other actions maybe our viewers know that it's going to be a free elections. of governors so it's a good opportunity for him to test himself as a politician well that's very quick questions a question do you think the results will be changing as as we'll hear as we hear the first count for from east to west of the country. for proper of the. with research the thirtieth but i think that the interesting thing is will the will of results be challenged on the to the will there be any kind of independent inquiry they are already seeing starting to be challenged we'll talk about it after the break just a reminder that we're talking still journalist civil war and political analyst clearly need the spotlight will be back shortly after we take a break so don't go away stay where you are.

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market. why don't you really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. welcome back to spotlight time algorithm often just a reminder that my guest today here in studio is tim wall in chief of the moscow news and need probably call fed general political files the portman and the high school of economics and we know for have a special guest here are russia today reporter in the central election committee you can see with a good evening and do you have any new figures any any new preliminary results of

the vote as it's being counted definitely do l. now that eighteen percent of all the ballots across the country have been counted it's. spoken favorite's prime minister blood. leading with sixty two point three percent of the vote coming second his communist candidate denied the zyuganov who had seventeen point six percent of the vote lead image in the candidate from the liberal democratic party's seven point eight percent and independent candidate billion or crocker of it is now getting seven point five percent coverage for what it's definitely every tree for a new comer to the politics he only announced that he would be running for presidency several months ago now the last one on the list as candidate i just thought you said game you're on the way it's you second election which is trying to get the country stop drop and he's getting only three point seven percent of the vote now with so gritty of service participating in this year's election we

understand that it will take longer for those observers to quit signatures and final protocols to seal official results and the selection definitely sets a record in terms of being the most expensive and the most closely monitored if you want the most transparent in the country's history and overall of over three hundred million dollars have been spent on installing web cameras very expensive city we work across the country also there were transparent ballot boxes installed at all polling stations and a record number of service as well almost a million watchdogs have been closely monitoring these presidential vote in russia with seven hundred of them crawling with brought now russia's most recent nationwide ballot the december of poor parliamentary elections were married with accusations that the vote had been raked and those accusations were behind the government's decision to allow more of service in to install web cameras hundreds

of websites on the internet have been showing. video materials from polling stations in all nine time zones of the country all. all almost five days of video was recorded on these one day only of course the main intrigue in the around these surrounding this election is whether there'll be a second round now he's the be the one which now talks the least let him report and current prime minister in the end when all ballots are counted doesn't get that much needed magic figure of fifty percent of the vote but they'll be a second round and question very much alive who would be running against him in that second round if if again this is the case but time will tell we still have almost a day to go we remember from the previous nationwide ballot which was in december the state duma elections and there are so many times and almost ninety eight

thousand polling stations across the country it will definitely take time to analyze and to count all the bells all the information so we expect the most final results by the evening moscow time tomorrow on monday thank you thank you very much and just a reminder. from the central election commission head forth from the ground zero of the russian election from for from the central command point where it's all happening so human as we just heard the situation there was pretty much tabled sixty plus something for putin seventeen something for for the runner up was the communist leader of the moment. so. we have started talking about the possible protests about the possible accusations after the elections tim said that he would like to see what happens or not if if the people will be complaining about the the legitimacy of the election workers this is this is

already started we heard there. has already stated that he has reports of thousands of irregularities do you think that something will happen. close to what we saw after that you leave this and move actions you know that. this is the game is not an idiot because you know we know the winner but the responsibility of all participants of this presidential ball is quite obvious. for candidates i believe they should recognize the results because it's a really transparent and free and fair elections maybe thirst in the history of a very very little history or limited democracy in russia otherwise they could be responsible for any possible unrest which can happen tomorrow morning more night well let's hear from one of the observer is how the election we do have we do have

an observer from here quoted in the book and let's hear what this man had to say about the election. that more i saw two groups involved multiple holding they arrived in latin the same bus i managed to take pictures of one group but i scared then a group disintegrated when it reached another precinct so the second group were found here we can track them down and the police detained them and took the minutia that was i'm sorry to see it's impossible to find out who they voted for. well this was the guy who controlled the elections on the part of the communists there do you do you believe that we'll hear a lot more of such accusations or be regularities. unfortunate things that we will i mean i've been watching the process all also of the day to day looking at media reports and videos online and you have to say that the pattern looks pretty much like the december elections now of course it's one thing. making the accusations it's nothing proven but i think that i think that the main problem for the

authorities is that as we've talked about before how does the government legitimize these elections. the problem is we don't have a non-system candidate if you i mean you maybe you can count proc of as a non-system country but if you only half so what we do have a non-system candid and british elections to. their problem in three policy then we would tend to agree with it but i think i do think it's a phrase we did have instead i think it's present difficult to register a political party that is here that's now is going to view very very the. next mr a couple of months you are a traitor but i think that the main problems are such as legitimacy and you know whatever the result of this election if there is twenty thirty percent even more of the population who doesn't think that this was a legitimate election. and is willing to protest then the authorities have a problem because later in the day if there is something that brings into the this

into question if the people who supported putin this time because he promised to protect their jobs and their pensions and their salaries if that somehow falls apart because of the world economic crisis then the then the government has a problem. what do you think will the reaction will well there are irregularities that any elections all around the world will depend on how the scale of it is a sure bet it also therefore the differences in reaction of the government of the winner do you think the reaction of the winner this time will be the it will be similar to the reaction december when they have been prickly no reaction no no i expect a different a different yes yes i mean that's all of those who are or who will be caught and hold the proof that they. have broken the law and be committed some procedural irregular good. they will be brought to

account or responsible or even punished according to the law this will prove the government really starts origins really interested in him in the fair and for your lections well we have two other observers that we have in. our reporter actually met in the city of two men and here's another opinion about how the elections when . as of now we have not recorded any violations but i should note we have not counted any balance yet the turnout was quite impressive but if you ask me what i think about these elections i can see the whole process was transparent. here we hear these spokes person for me whole process of who who says. there was fraud but when we hear one of his spokespeople say that at this particular polling station everything was right we have another one we have another representative.

also in there to me. in the to me in region but he actually had he actually also said regarding also a couple of hours ago he actually said that everything went smoothly and there were there were no irregularities at this particular close nation so. the thing is the main question is that do we actually expect that whatever of regularities there may have been that they will actually influence the final results or not. limit of zero international community by i don't know i think this is pretty much as i expected but i think i think the problem is you have to look at the election process as a whole. i think it starts with you know who you allowed to register a scoundrel it starts with who has the the who has the dominance on the t.v. airwaves and i think that i am disappointed to be honest that the authorities

didn't just allow a sort of a for a more level playing field but have you heard this this interesting technology that channel two state of the vision has announced the they made up a special special technology sort of machine that counted seconds split seconds of every candidate that was a number one was you got a friend put it was number two a number three was present on their. average a one hour fifty three minutes and put in all you want to our full year was unfortunate so this was the figure is it still you know we don't believe he said it you know i don't know what i also got an impression that there was more put in there the others but here we are the figure is only because i couldn't quite believe it when it himself didn't participate in the debates yet therefore it's gonna. be a really sort of the reason that we'll actually actual german we're running out of time so so the last question i would like i would like to ask you is. that the next

ten days over ten days everything's planned around moscow meetings every day and every major major square there there's going to be meetings. going to be fun or is it going to be just well. i don't know same quite intimidated by the whole to put i mean i think that there is a there is an inherent danger in the situation because you've got a hardcore of the opposition supporters now who will i think you know feel the pinch. heated and feel that this sort of come to the end of the road to being able to protest peacefully and i hope that it doesn't develop into a confrontation with the security forces thank you taylor thank you very much of course you will run out of time but you will see more results out of the election crowd here in russia in the russia today in a matter of minutes that's it for now from all of us here scoff why it will be back until then and take it.