free. free. free volunteer mediocre for your media projects free media oh god r.t. dot com. hello there from the heart of the russian capital this is art he's a russian presidential election coverage but it's official that they were putin has been elected president the celts were announced with more than ninety nine percent of the ballots counted he's managed to secure only sixty four percent of the vote. for monitors praise the elections as fair and free of the unprecedented measures are taken to ensure transparency massive network of cameras were installed at polling stations across russia thousands of observers monitoring the voting. but

the opposition claims serious electoral violations saying no bringing people down from the streets once again to protest against the results activists and independent observers have cited irregularities such as people turning up to vote different polling stations several times. but an in-depth look at the presidential election results and the efforts of the opposition that's not sure spotlight next. hello again and welcome troops from the into the shallow part i'll bring our own survey 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 flimsily results this election was a very special it's the first time after

a constitutional reform of the russians elected a president for six years instead of four moreover as being the most expensive but the most transparent voting as anyone can watch it online so well that very special election become a milestone in russian political s. we will 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 yet you political. russians have cost albums doesn't next president bill action committees across the country and abroad and on busy counting the ballots and processing the data from russia six residential election is also the first in which a president is elected for six years instead of four and find candidates who are planning is the idea you believe in anything and also this really does of the heart

is represented in the duma communist united isn't gonna bleeding heart liberal democratic party like you who ne and soon gave you enough open play russia on t.v. the election was preceded by of the two complaining and made the biggest groan one anti 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 counted a majority of seeds the ruling united russia. r.t. leading to fruity conditions and mass protests 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 on russians in the balance. hello gentlemen tim lee only thank you very much

for joining us on the show well first of all human the the the font upshift in their mini of the public opinion poll company had published preliminary results just the world couple of days before the for the actual election and they're 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's the quote here's how here's how the the public opinion polls are those asian predicted that the voting will be well how accurate is that how how how good were well where they stand well the lead but it should be interesting this year. saw because this approach is so for. curing the paul's examples it's not the first time that. sold our pollsters

are very very well equipped. of a lot of them not much more from from western experience although personally i trust this service 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 or two weeks before the election that he really he really. sort of a great thrill in the polls in the popularity so good but he didn't seem for me he 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 regard 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 that have been used by the pope groups in canada 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 you know all those people were told come along from us live it sort of something like this and the problem for putin is that 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 then you should have an impression that putin wasn't actually afraid of confrontation that the only thing that he was afraid of me still is afraid of the moment is that is that maybe not everybody will trust these elections to be legit everyone's doing his best to make the magic that is indigenous a green view the main intrigue of this election is not. who will win and it was clear you can't resist yes yes but i think on the second round would have been fair . but i think i think we had even had somebody who may really oppose putin but nobody 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 a year but you know he didn't have a rival who could challenge him seriously. who now of the view we

see the second place of the same leader of companies you know if you go in africa twenty years. people didn't buy it therefore again the result was predictable but you are right the main issue of this. election is the legitimacy and how to legitimize this is the big concern because you know this is open war and the global war and within russia we have some opposition groups who would definitely. it wasn't free and fair and international community. let's hear a quiet attempt of we have these people therefore it's a big concern now the the the only fresh face that we saw during this russia were. profit off the billionaire. but he said i'm not in a position to put in i'm like an alternative i mean we we have the same platform we

we we we want the same thing we have buddies but but i'm just for those who are tired of putin if they can vote for me but isn't this a pretty strange. platform for for a presidential campaign i think it's not i just think it's a little bit too much control yeah i mean you know we have someone in between 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 kind of person 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 he made a good of you undertake you know presenting because he's all for the least of the signatures of all of his supporters and he violated the law but he said i don't know why. they gave me

a good example i mean you can make the same kind of mistake when you when you when you say new directions for these and you don't go to these for no reason just you made a slight mistake you made the the wrong picture i mean you you know he you put it and that's what is there for. they have a. very nice lawyer. and now i wonder why this mistake so it's to me it's very well you know you know i think you asked about the proper of as a real rival put in by your ideological belief they all of a center right candidate saw their for profit of is wild on pushing this is this is maybe why you said i'm not i am i am turning to have but not opposition this is yes well let's see the latest results we have heard them from from the central central action committee where my ten minutes ago in the news but here they are what we are with this minute is that we having sixty two percent for prudent seventeen for

zyuganov and seven point five for it which is a pretty good result isn't it isn't it because because he he's easing you cover huli well just learning well 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 candidates puton. really 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 anything can decide deal you know like we said i think that the person who probably gamed the most out of this election campaign wasn't even standing it was alexei novelli 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 whether i just stay within the law it was my job 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 politics as well i mean that position well i actually i prefer to hear your opinion do you do you will i ask clearly do you believe that an internet creation like alex a no one is who is against he's not first so he is against he's always he doesn't trust these against then well he's a lot like one hundred percent hundred percent computer computer virtual like person. but on like 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 koreas . year i believe so you think he has a good chances to become a politician the real policies and declaring not just that he is against but his positive program and he has a million million per community is. to participate in municipal elections and resident of elections maybe our viewers know that it's going to be free elections.

of the governors so it's a good a good opportunity for him to test himself as a politician and was very quick questions a question do you think the results will be changing as as we'll hear as we hear the count for from east to west of the country i hope for proper of. give us another thought to the third if you want i think that the interesting thing is will the will of results could challenge them up to the will there be any kind of independent inquiry they are already seeing starting to be challenged challenged talk about it all to bridge a through line today we're talking to journalists a wall and a political analyst near new delhi coffee like we'll be back shortly after we take a break so don't go away stay where you are.

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welcome back to spotlight our algorithm often just a reminder the my guest today here in studio is tim wall chief of the moscow news and need probably head of general political science department in the high school of economics and we also have a special view if you are russia today reporter in the central election committee you can see we're going to be 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 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 good night gives you gon up with seventeen point six percent of the vote but diminish it in the candidate from the liberal democratic party with seven point eight percent and independent candidate billionaire mikhail prokhorov is now getting seven point five percent of revote it's definitely have big tree for a newcomer 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 from a just russia party said give me your all in the fates 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 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 these election 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 all over all 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 vote in russia with seven hundred of them from abroad now russia's most recent nationwide ballot the december for 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. 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 ballots are counted doesn't get that much needed magic figure of fifty percent of the votes but they'll be a second round and the question very much alive is 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 of the state duma elections as there are so many times zones and almost ninety eight thousand polling stations across the country will definitely take time to analyze and count all the polls to pursue all the information so we expect the most

final results by the evening moscow time tomorrow monday thank you thank you very much and your three minor children from the central election commission here border from. the ground zero of the russian election from from from the central command point where it's all happening so you know when as we just heard the the situation there was pretty much stable of sixty plus something for putin a seventeen something for for the runner up who 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 that happens or not if if the people will be complaining about the legitimacy of the election well this is this is already started here that we hope our earth 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 the game is not an idiot because you know we know the winner but the responsibility of all participants of this presidential paul is quite obvious. for candidates i believe they should recognize the results because it's a really transparent free and fair elections maybe through us and history of very very little history or democracy in russia otherwise they would be responsible for any possible unrest which could happen tomorrow morning tomorrow night well now let's hear from one of the observers 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. 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 them and i glued disintegrated when it reached not a precinct but the second group of farm here we tracked them down and the police detained them and to diminish it on. i'm sorry to say it's impossible to find out who they voted for well this was the guy who controlled the russians on the part of the communists so to then do you do you believe that we'll hear a lot more of such accusations of regularity while our unfortunate think that we will i mean i've been watching the process all day today in business 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 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 counted it if you i mean you maybe you can count pocket as a non-system candidate but maybe only half so well we do have a non-theist can do can british elections do their. problem entry policy i mean how would. i do think is a phrase we did everything that i think is present difficult to register a political party and. here let's say now is going to view very little the next couple of months your threat right 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

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 there are irregularities or any elections all around the world they depend on the scale it is reflecting it also therefore different things in reaction of the government how the winner do you think the reaction of the winner this time would be the will be similar to the reaction december when they have been prickly no reaction. different and different i mean that's all of those who are or who will be of course and will be proved that they. have broken the law and will be coming to some procedural irregular good. they will be brought to council or responsible or even punished according to the law this will prove the government really. thought it was really interested in i mean the fair and free

elections well we have two other observers that we have. met in this reporter who 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 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 of that and put him also in there to me and in the two men region. he actually and he actually also said we have recorded also a couple of hours and he actually said that everything went smoothly and there were

there were no irregularities at this point particularly station 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. kimock up to international community i don't know i think that this is pretty much as i expected but i think i think the problems you have to look at the election process as a whole and i think it starts with you know who you without registering it starts with who has the right 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 more level playing field but have you or there's this interesting knology that channel two state of the vision has announced the they made up

a special special technology sort of machine that counted second split second of every candidate that was odd and number one was you got a friend put it was number two a number three was present on there. ever is a one of fifty three has been put in more than one tower we have one and fortune is first. the figure is it's you know you don't believe. you know i what i also got an impression that there was more potent than the others but here we are the figure is only because i couldn't quite believe it when it himself did not participate in the debates therefore as a gun of course. there is. actually an actual general 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 that we're going to be fun or is it going to be just. i don't know so saying goodbye to me going to find a hole to put i mean i think there is an inherent danger in the situation because you've got a hard core 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 thelma thank you very much unfortunately ran out of time but you will see more results of the election crowd here of russia in the russia today in a matter of minutes that's it for the hour from all of us here is cause life will be back into lent and taken it.

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