i promised you we would win. we have one. victory in his bid to return to the kremlin for a third time as russia's president results so far show him winning nearly sixty five percent of the vote but most of the ballots counted. for monitors praise the elections that's apparent free after unprecedented measures are taken to ensure transparency including hundreds of thousands of service network of cameras and polling stations across russia. but the opposition claims serious lecturer violations saying they'll be bringing people out onto the streets once again to

protest against the results. this is artie's a presidential election coverage live from moscow well russia's prime minister vladimir putin has declared victory is it for a third term as russia's president he addressed the crowds of jubilant supporters in moscow of the winning an estimated sixty five percent of the vote almost ballots counted let's talk to our teams lexi. lexi a look said to have won a decisive victory the figures at the moment. well we understand around ninety eight percent of all the votes have been counted so far and so far leads by had great margin of which around sixty four percent his closest rival in this case is

the communist party and he cannot he's gone up with around seventeen percent the next comes out of the dark horse of this presidential campaign with around seven point seven percent and. still with six percent pennsylvania on the with three percent full of them at the lower part of this presidential race now of course there was a big intrigue of this particular presidential race whether there would be a second round runoff in that case it could have happened if we did not manage to gather fifty percent of the votes plus one vote now we understand certainly that he has managed to go on a far more than that which would make him president of russia immediately in the very first round without anything without any second round run off late in the night late in the night and only on sunday who can address one hundred thousand strong crowd in. praising them for their support and expressing his

delight over this very overwhelming victory. race yes we have one in an open and fair battle but this wasn't just an election of the president it was a test of political maturity in independence and we have shown and nobody can impose anything on us we have shown our people who are able to tell the desire for renu from political provocations aimed at ruining the russian state and usurping power we have won with the support of the absolute majority of voters it's a clean victory we will work honestly and hard we will be successful and we call on everyone to unite over the interests of our people and our country yes i did i promised you we would when you. when we have one. well certainly a little bit of an unexpected result for some but nevertheless like everybody looks

set to become the president of russia for the third time in his let's say twelve twelve years of being the highest circles of power in russia. now the russian election orthorexia saying no effort has been spared to make this election the most transparent to date how well have these preparations works there. well we have certainly reports of some irregularities at the polling stations but those are yet to be confirmed or investigated but nevertheless we have definitely received confirmation from international observers that they believe this election was fair certainly after a string of mass protests which hit many russian cities after the december voting but the parliamentary election on december the fourth id authorities had to make sure this election was transparent and invested at least health a billion u.s. dollars into installing web cameras at every single polling station across the country just to make sure that every user could have seen could have observed the

election process online as well as of course hundreds of thousands of independent observers basically any russian citizen who had the wish to be an observer could register with a political party and be observed as a sort of a polling station across the country whether or not this election did indeed become the most transparent in russia's history we are yet to learn but now of course all the focus is on what lies ahead of russia with which it is set to become its president for the third time and to talk about it we're joined live in moscow and as you from the central post industrial post-industrial studies many thanks for joining us this hour in freezing moscow and question to you we see that putin has gained victory with a rather overwhelming result what makes the russians elect him again why do you think he'd become became become president of the country again through the. elections for another month or for. this is no doubt the new one and the first

maybe not just sixty four but fifty plus the plate and made it easier for the russian. goal to keep the peace and the support because this is a visit question of that with which is why right here you have. the majority of those with really wish to. political and economic laws to continue how do you think putting his policies as the president will differ from his previous two terms in office and from the policies of mr mcveigh if you are different from the present mr miller quite greatly because putin is not a supporter of modernization efforts he he just relies on the economy as a very traditional kind of resource based economic pressure and i don't feel differ greatly from his political opponents is all first because this agency this political spectrum of people doesn't change so i think it will be a simple continuation of what we've seen from this of course to celebrate but we've

heard many assurances from him that the political system it will change in russia do you think it will change i mean what changes are we to see after all maybe the political system will change a bit i think maybe they will force all these reforms our political police force party forms a litter of forms and they view will come into force this year but has this become seen in previous years. except. that there is a lot of political forces. and the legalization of pot to go a little additional political or not course immediately. politics so i think you will see for two three years you could lead. this to continue right many things that this was actually i was going to joining us live here in moscow we certainly waiting for all the votes to be counted and we'll bring the latest details as we get them. ok thank you our correspondent. for now thank you.

claim that retains a spokesperson told r.t. that they had been expecting a result of this high. it's a very high result. we were thinking about positive result we were hoping for a definite victory and a first who would never think of such a high reserve and it shows once again actually proves putin is a political figure number one and beans country where his potential is here is yet to be told to and he will be able to prove it through his. presidency our public society is growing very fast. this growth grows faster than political system and public society demands more proactive involvement in political and sometimes points of view that do not coincide with governmental position so. to speak against him

it's unthinkable part of democracy unthinkable part of europe true or isn't. so it's quite normal we'll see protests in all the countries of the world. stay with r.t. for a special presidential election coverage. action this will start broadcasting at three pm g.m.t. we'll be bringing you the latest results on the variety of opinions across the political spectrum. unprecedented measures were taken by the authorities for maximum transparency during elections and massive network of web cameras across russia and thousands of observers have been monitoring the voting let's get more from our teaser jacob greaves on jacob what

a record number of observers are both international and independent how did they assess the process. wolf or was the. always seemed to be quite happy with what transpired all. day expressing there were no serious concerns this comes of course of the chief who served in the navy allegations electoral fraud taking place. for several holiday tree elections stop is really characterized the presidential campaign for observers say they saw no serious concerns in fact they were quite satisfied with solar technology being boy boy he said truthful air election official of the day and he says well we saw where cancer stored over ninety thousand polling stations around the country this is the whereby people with global warming it was an individual polling stations they said something that was quite successful as you could hear from all of those observers now. a group

of with a group of fifty observers they can see a system a very good group from many different countries italy austria. and members of parliament and we visited in the morning two polling stations and in the afternoon to call the stations overall i think our observations were. unanimous there was no evidence of any. problems with the conduct of the elections i think that in a very responsible and. present fashion so far it seems the new technologies work very well and i commend. the government for bringing this team because it may lay to rest a particular focus on the process of the presidential election rather than the policies and. the central election commission is saying that they received reports of over eighty boy elations taking place of voting day which will be

investigated one of them occurring in the north caucuses the russian republic of dagestan where there seems to be a video has been uploaded alleging ballot stuffing taking place since that has been received the central issue commission so they all know all the votes at that local polling station it won't count to the end result. what's the reaction been to all this from the opposition. or the opposition as such show a different side to this story they haven't been has satisfied indeed they allege this ballot stuffing did take place around russia and we saw this as a system of carousel voting whereby people symbol of mass into it divisional polling stations to disrupt activities there for each presidential candidate they had observers which could lead to the situation around the country so that. the russian billionaire currently sees or comes in this presidential election he had about twenty cows and his disposal they seem to report about four thousand

violation is taking place which he's paid cause to say they will see you in the courts also the likes of you know going off to sea so come second but he said he didn't accept the results of this vote of what transpired should they go this and independent party report about three thousand lation is taking place all this yet to be officially verified to keep from the central election commission all the chief concerns here is that prime minister vladimir putin c c if that makes seeded expectations in terms of the results initially thought a whole round about fifty percent of the vote he's got far more. given all that then are we likely to see protests in the coming days. yes in fact we're going to probably see one laces day taking place just behind me. pushkin square about ten thousand people viciously sanctions take place it take part in this demonstration

this is part of that protest movie saw spurred all really on the back of the heart of main street and elections in allegations of electoral fraud that followed from that hasn't really lost any of us have made some seeds we see mass demonstrations mass protests in russia's tattoo indeed around the country ever since characterizing the build up to this presidential campaign we have also seen the other side of the stories well those who are of the government in particular supporter want translate prime minister vladimir putin. throughout the course of this election build up show their support for prime minister vladimir putin expected to present the just last night or minus well over one hundred thousand people assembled again to cheer on the prime minister he place a dress the crowd much easier boiled see the prime minister there space to be simply down the old good credit of ernest where they stay again showing their

support for those dogs. ok for now jacob riis live from moscow thank you. well on our web site r.t. dot com you can find a political opinion very latest analysis on russia's presidential election has some of what's lined up today find out how most russians would like to see change coming slowly or gradually revolutionary. also what's qualities must an ideal president possess sincerity intelligence or experience in politics. r.t. tough call. well that the spot the unprecedented it tends to ensure transparency and fairness in the election which everyone is happy with the outcome he tells fox he's fronts that

lindsay of the runner up didn't take a loss well did he. absolutely not in fact coming in with nearly twenty percent of the votes he claims the election's neither fair or just blaming putin for not participating in election debates in fact claimed the state stole fifty percent above and because of this he now says he plans to take people to the streets in protest and he's also the only candidate not to officially recognize the results of this election. to be election has brought a new comer to the top but it's clear that nicole procure a we did better than so moving around for a while does he still have big plans inhibitions for the future. absolutely this independent billionaire tycoon finishing up with over seven percent of the vote this is not the last we would hear of him politically here and puts him shared

a phone call where putin even acknowledged that he had achieved very very decent results now and he also plans he says to form his own political party and whether or not he plans to run for president will be faced with enough political party in the coming years but this is not the last hour we will hear from him and in fact we spoke to one of his spokespeople last night to get their take on where they think that this is headed in the future. he actually has the russian nationalists has been doing political career for twenty years and history knows that that's a very positive sign we just started to have a very short campaign and where we started we told russians that we want to be in the russian politics were coming fifteen twenty years ago i think that by. she has become more and more thinking emotionally devoted to one of the candidates so they think that probably is a kind of a man has been managing his business for for

a while and a great wealth transfer bill and dollar has been growing his capital is wealth that's what the country needs or wants to get the numbers of g.d.p. people want to have biggest seller is so he's the right guy to choose can manage this process. so nancy what plans do the two have for today. love your very. careful he does plan to possibly attack. opposition protests rallies. square here in moscow for his part you get off says that he will hold a press conference at eleven am and then we might have more details on what he plans to deal about these results by us now and satisfactory. ok lindsay france in my life thank you. voting it may be over

in russia it's a presidential election but there's another vote you can take part in. so they were asking you what the biggest challenge for us was next president will be the results so far most of you more than forty percent believe fending off a day to encroach will be the biggest challenge eighteen percent say the main task will be to modernize the country's economy and politics just to further that getting rid of corruption should be taught. and the rest of the vote so evenly divided between keeping the economy ticking over both economic problems russia's google leverage. what you think should be at the top of the new russian president in trade by casting your vote dot com. that action has been closely watched across the world ortiz washington

correspondent karen has been monitoring u.s. media coverage this russians advances since putin came to power but still a negative slant. before the elections even started the underlying message in the media here was that those were going to be unfair elections most of the coverage is focused on the discontent with the litter ship among many washes and here is a very telling headline the beginning of the end of putin but inside the weekly you read about the surge of the middle class on the policing who having first become consumers have now become citizens points out the officer there's a great deal of critique here but then you come across a table which would require a pretty good resume for any presidential candidate g.d.p. per person in russia more than doubled in the last twelve years private housing poles doubled the number of course tripled tourist travel abroad more than doubled the number of internet users increased almost five hundred times but again despite

the part of the russians achievements under his rule journalists will focus on discontent in the society citing pollsters which they around forty percent of russians don't trust prime minister putin then he makes you think what may be strange if everyone were happy with the government but interesting in the latest polls i've seen forty one percent of americans strongly disapprove of president obama and the word was exact exactly strongly so yes this content among the rushes lottery put in losing losing popularity those are the things that the media here are focusing on maybe vision vast protests what's also interesting about the coverage everybody knows that putin is the most popular politician in russia but at the same time there seems to be some like a respect for the choice that russians have made but also one thing all media agree on when covering the opposition movements and all that is that russians begin to pay attention and told that they care there's another issue the media are looking

at of course and that is the u.s. russia relations with the new old president putin they mention this chemistry that existed between presidents obama and medvedev. see prime minister future president putin as kind of a hawk whose response to certain u.s. policies has been blunt sharp and at times unpleasant for washington and they raise questions about the reset it's going foreign journalists actually asked prime minister putin about the future and the results of the reset and what he said was basically that reset doesn't mean russia has to give up its national interests or not be able to express its views on some crucial international each shoes but despite the differences is that private is to say the reset has worked and it's such to dramatically advance economic ties between the countries in the first place and he's determined to continue that policy of leader mahmoud hasn't been hugely different to europe so that the u.s.

future in criticism of it seems decision to run for the presidency again this election campaign when our europe correspondent terms of syria has been one of the reactions of brussels. well it's all been very consistent from the very start again that they've had a very critical view of the election campaign in russia as well as right now today on go away counting of the votes who've already been seeing a report song of the reported irregularities that's what makes it in the media here in europe especially because these calls for free and fair elections is essentially the basis the basis of the basis of all of the criticism that it started and then leading into the protest movement we've had a lot of opposition of voices opposition activists being featured a lot if the european press and today is no different they've been complaining about those regularities as well as some russian voices who say that actually there is a lack of choice in a russian elections and therefore they're making a protest move just voting for

a party they may not believe it but it's just against united russia or against putin and of course there's a lot of analysis also coming in here from europe first of all of what is going to change especially now that there is a very very active opposition and the biggest in about two decades now that's far as the european leaders are concerned they are taking a wait and see approach to staff through the of march wanted to summit european leaders and said several of them saying that they have to they want to wait and see what will happen after the russian elections and then reassess again for the positions especially on international issues maybe about syria and iran now i'm some commentators do point out that whatever the outcome of the russian elections or whatever the european leaders and the media may think of whoever becomes russia's next president the fact remains that russia is still a very big and important partner for europe especially in trade and business and therefore more reaction definitely on and then alice is on of the impact of what

happens on piece this important russia and europe relations. but international consultant and off agent sell gucci thinks that despite unfavorable western media coverage of the international benefits for potential turn to russia. they're full of this news is bad for the united states bad for the united kingdom bad for israel even the b.b.c. c.n.n. fox news. the italian rival spanish t.v. . gave us just one piece of information together with an explosion in brazzaville train crash in poland definitely it's bad news for them however this is very good for the world because now more than ever the drive for global hegemony that we see on the part of the united states the united kingdom the european union or some countries in the european union and israel russia is the key country together with enough but the key country to act as a buffer as a break even as a war against. global or

a colonial drive the. major western powers and i think russia really couldn't see it in you. to the right only preserves in world in the world scene which is to act as a world power which it always has been acceptable confused for a while and i think the ladies and secondly there has to be a balance that will help our lives global power so that as i say the world is not overrun as we are seeing i don't see very united states and european unity because that sounds rather childish but i insist by the global power elite embedded inside these countries and they have to be stopped. well russia's efforts to maintain balance in world affairs as one of the strands of discussion are to make sure crosstalk. the u.s. is pushing very hard to try and use hard power to how the world needs its agenda whereas russia instead it's working with people with other countries and there is a dialogue maybe it's not the empire showed people it's

a multilateral. situation now where russia is working with other countries this is the way to build your allies and to have influence i think russia is much more influential now in the u.s. because of it see use of soft power. i think that you can watch the program in full in a few minutes time back with a recap of the headlines should stay with us.

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