market trying to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report. and you are with r.t. and our special coverage of russia as a presidential election with almost all of the votes counted. in the lead with around sixty four percent of the vote is rival the communist parties that gennady zyuganov a little over seventeen percent to other contenders. and. have accepted their defeat despite opposition claims of violations sunday's election is said to be the most transparent in russia's history. for me but we will be bringing you as

a team in the hours ahead as our special coverage of russia's presidential election continues earlier our interview show spotlight discussed the vote that's coming up next right here on r.t. . hello again and welcome troops talking about the into the shall as part of al green albums today we're talking about the presidential election in russia so this is it the voting is over and just moments ago i've heard the latest on the preliminary results of 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 moreover it's been the most expensive but the most transparent voting as anyone can watch it online so all that very special

election to cover while still in russian political eslick we'll discuss it now live with editor in chief of the moscow news tim was head to head of the general political science department at the high school of economics the idea to buy the cops. and russians of cost down the next president bill action committees across the country and detroit and on these accounts in the balance and processing the data russia's six presidential election is also the first in which a president is elected from six years instead of four and five candidates were prime minister why do you believe in anything for her and also this really does of the political parties represented in the duma communist unite isn't gonna lead iraq the liberal democratic party of ideas you know speech and so give me rolling up to play russia on t.v. the election was preceded by of beats and containing and made a big boost for online and to government rallies the country has seen since the

time of young what provoked a heated political debate where the results of the sometimes parliamentary vote which angered a majority of seats to the ruling united russia. we didn't influence. prudence in response to government promised the most transparent presidential election in russia's history nearly two hundred thousand 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 she went online broadcast of russians cast in their ballots. hello gentlemen two million you fake you very much for joining us on the show well first of all gentleman be the found any of the the public opinion poll company had published preliminary results just the world couple of days before before the

actual election and there it predicted that put in a 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's the poll here's how here is how the the public opinion polls are those asian predicted that the voting will be well how accurate is that how how good were the where they the stairwell the lead what should we trust this year yeah. because this practice of. clearing the. exit polls it's not the first time. so although our pollsters are very very well equipped. of a lot of them are much more from from the western experience or personally i trust that 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 like like one of two weeks before the election that he really he really. sort of a breakthrough in the polls in the popularity so we did but it didn't seem for me it didn't seem to do anything special so so do you believe this is so it why has that happened. well i think it's probably true that the the protest movement strike livan 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 or if someone like alexina volley would have stood who is more uncompromising 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 of have been used by the pope newton county 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 could have two days off or coming along one day or something like that here all of those people were told come along for muslims or something like this and the doesn't the problem for putin is this might fly in russia but to the rest of the world it doesn't look quite right it doesn't look quite like a free and fair election and then you. have an impression that putin wasn't actually afraid of competition that the only thing that he was afraid the need 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 it isn't it so you agree. the main intrigue of this election is not. who will win it was clear you couldn't resist yes yes closing on the second round would have been fair. because i think i think we had even had somebody who may really oppose putin but nobody in the nobody really did oppose it i think to be honest i think that the real probable level of support for putin is somewhere around forty five to fifty percent a year but you know he didn't have a rival. challenge him seriously. now the good we see the second place of the same leader of companies going to go now for twenty years or so on so people didn't buy it therefore again the result was predictable but you are right the main issue of. election is the

legitimacy and how to legitimize this is the big concern because you know this is open war and global war and within russia we have some opposition groups who would definitely. say that it wasn't free and fair international community. since hero waves are tentatively of his people therefore it's a big concern now the only fresh face that we saw during this russian. profit off the lead a 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 want the same thing laid we have bodies but i'm just for those who are tired of putin they can vote for me but well isn't this a pretty strange. platform for for

a presidential candidate you know i think i just thinks a little bit too much control yeah i mean you know we have someone including you have the skinny and it's been a fixture on the 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 there are 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 he made a good governor you know presenting because he's of for the least of the signatures all four of his supporters and he violated the law but 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 see the darkness for these and you don't get it these for no reason just you made a slight mistake to me that the the wrong picture i mean you you know he you put you go there and that's what this stuff is when. they have

a. very nice lawyer. and now i wonder why it's a mystery so it's to me it's very strange when you know you know i think you asked about the proper off as a real arrival which invites your ideological believe borth a center right candidate saw therefore open prokhorov is. this is this is maybe why you said i'm not i am i am turning to have but not opposition because this is well let's see the latest results we have heard them from from the central central election committee will like ten ten minutes ago in the news but here they are what we are with this minute is that we having sixty two percent for putin seventeen for love 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 newcomer he only just learning i think at 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 pollutant. 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 if they found only three candidates ideal. like we said i think that the person who probably game the most out of this election campaign wasn't even stanley it was alexina valley 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 universe 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 but you think so well i mean the position well i actually i prefer to leave your opinion do you do you will i ask clearly do you believe that an internet creation like alex a no one is who's against he's the first out he's against he's always he doesn't

trust these against then well well well isn't that like one hundred percent hundred percent computer computer virtual like person is most but yet he is partner like do you think that he made make a can there for the next political political action like four years ago in the various times i think. you think he has a good chances to become a politician a real politician and declaring not just that he is against but his positive program and he has a million many opportunities. to participate in municipal elections in resident of elections maybe our viewers know that it's going to be free elections. of governors so it's a good opportunity for him to test himself as a politician very quick questions a question do you think the results will be changing as as we'll hear as we hear

the the first count from from east to west of the country. for crocker of. i think that the interesting thing is will the results. be any kind of independent inquiry they are seeing starting to be china chinese we'll talk about it all to bridges through our internet we're talking to journalists a wall and political analyst. will be back shortly after we take a break so don't go away stay where you are. i'm sure old guard you got a story around about this crazy lady with a convertible honk for the first time he. was on death row for.

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i won't be there i will not witnessed the killing myself wealthy british style. market trying to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into current report on our. welcome back to spotlight i'm algorithm often just to remind to the my guest today here in studio is tim wall in chief of the moscow news and need probably call for head of general political science department in the high school of economics and we

know for have a special guest here our russia today reporter in the central election committee you can see we've got a good evening and do you have any new figure is there any any new preliminary results of the vote as it's being counted but definitely do l. now that eighteen percent of the ballots across the country have been counted the outspoken favorite prime minister vladimir putin is leading with sixty two point three percent of the boat coming second this communist candidate denied these two gone up with seventeen point six percent of the vote but they're not afraid in the risky candidate from the liberal democratic parties with seven point eight percent of independent candidate billionaire mikhail prokhorov is now getting seven point five percent of the vote it's definitely have big trade 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 is candidate i just

russia parties have given year on the feeds his second election which is trying to get the country's top job and he's getting only three point seven percent of the post now with so many observers participating in this year's election we understand it will take longer for those observers to put 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 says if you work across the country also there were transparent ballot boxes installed at all polling stations and a record number of observers as well almost a million watchdogs have been closely monitoring these presidential both in russia with seven hundred of them from abroad now russia's most recent nationwide ballot

the december for a parliamentary elections were married with accusations that the vote had been raked and those accusations were behind the government's decision to allow more observers in. cameras hundreds of websites on the internet have been showing. video materials from polling stations in all nine time zones of the country all in all almost five days of video was recorded on these one day only and of course the main intrigue in the around these surrounding this election is whether it will be a second round now if the the the one which now talks the least. current prime minister in the end when all the ballots are counted doesn't get that much needed magic figure of fifty percent of the bows but they'll be a second round and question very much alive who would be running against him in that second round even 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 as there are so many times those and almost ninety eight thousand polling stations across the country will definitely take time to analyze to count all the ballots to process all the information so we expect the most final results by the evening moscow time tomorrow. thank you thank you very much and just a reminder if you're sitting there going to show up for the central election commission have forth from the ground zero of the russian election from from from the central command point where it's all happening so you know and as we just heard the the situation there was pretty much stable sixty something for putin seventeen plus something for for the runner up it was who was the communist leader at the moment. so we have started talking about the possible

protests about the possible accusations after the elections and jim 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 that this is this is already started we heard that. has already stated there that he has reports of thousands of irregularities do you think that something will happen close to what we saw after they leave this and move actions you know that. this is the game is not an idiot because you know we know. the responsibility of all participants of this presidential all is quite obvious. for candidates i believe they should recognize the results because it's a really transparent. actions may be through us and history of a very very little history or demonic democracy in russia otherwise. could be

responsible for any possible unrest which could happen tomorrow morning for more nights well now let's hear from one of the observer is now the election we do have we do have an observer from here. and let's hear what this man had to say about the election. more i saw two groups involved in multiple voting they arrived and left in the same bus i managed to take pictures of one group but i scared then another group disintegrated winterreise not a precinct but the second group you can hear trickling down in the police detained them into the minutia of what i'm sorry to say it's impossible to find out who the rooted for. this was the guy who controlled the elections on the part of the communists out in there do you do you believe that we'll hear a lot more of such accusations of regularities. unfortunate think that we will i mean i've been watching the process all also the day today and been looking at

media reports and videos online and you have to say that the cotton looks pretty much like the december elections now of course it's one thing. making accusations it's nothing proven but i think that i think that the main problem for the authorities is. as we've talked about before how does the government legitimize these elections and the problem is we don't have a non-system candidate if you i mean you maybe you can count procrit as a non-system country but maybe only half so what we don't have the non-system can do can british elections do their. own entry probably let me i would tend to agree with you but i think i do think it's a phrase we did everything i think is present difficult to register a political party you know meetings is here. now is going to view very easy the next mesko couple of months you're great writer but i think that the main problems are so does 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 display into question if the people who supported putin this time because he promised to protect their jobs and protect 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 would the reaction were there are irregularities at any elections all around the world will depend on the scale of isn't 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 will be similar to the reaction december when there have been pretty you know reaction. expected different and different oh yes yes i mean that all illegals who are or who will be caught and

hold will be proof that they. have broken the law and be coming to some procedural irregular good. so. they will be brought to account responsible or even punished according to the law this will prove the government really starts or it is really interesting i mean for you elections well we have two other observers that we have. in this report are actually met in the city two men and here's another opinion about how the elections when down as of now we have not recorded any violations but i should note we have not counted any ballots yet the turnout was quite impressive i guess if you ask me what i think about these elections i can see the whole process was transparent. here we hear these spokespersons for me who who says that there was fraud

but when we hear one of his spokespeople say that at this particular calling station everything was right we have another one we have another representative. also in there to me and in the two main region he actually had he actually also said recording also a couple of hours ago he actually said that everything went smoothly and there were there were no irregularities and this particular position so. the thing is the main question is that do we actually expect that whatever regularities there may have been that they will actually influence the final results or not. keep it up you know international community i don't know i think that 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 scandal 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 the authorities didn't just allow a sort of a more level playing field but have you heard this and this interesting sick knology 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 every candidate that was number one was examined and put it was number two a number three was present on their. average a one hour fifty three minutes and put in all you wanted or we had one foot in his first. vigorously state you know you don't believe. him i know you i also got an impression that there was more put in there the others but here we are the figure is only because i can't quite believe it when it himself did not participate in the

debates yet therefore as a gun of course also heard. very. well actually actual criminal running out of time so so the last question i would like i would like to ask you is. the next ten days all the ten days everything's planned around moscow meetings every day and every major major square there is going to be meetings. we're going to be fun or is it going to be just. i don't know so i'm saying goodbye to him we're going to find a hole to put in i mean i think 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 that they can chew. heated and feel that this is 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 thelma thank you very much of

course it will run out of time but we'll see more results 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 of course why it will be back on to lead and take it. home. mom.