i do still promised you we would win. i believe we have one that they may put in wins the right to return to the kremlin for a third time as russia's president has official results show he secured nearly sixty four percent of the vote. for none of his praise elections is fair and free after unprecedented measures are taken to ensure transparency including hundreds of thousands of observers and a network of web cameras polling stations across russia. but the opposition claims serious the electoral violations saying they'll be bringing people out on the streets once again to protest against the results.

this is our teaser russian presidential election coverage live from moscow welcome well it's official putin has won the presidential race to become russia's leader for a third term official results have even had almost sixty four percent of the vote let's not talk so much he's alexy our chef speak more on this and let's see putin is finished what ahead of his appearance was over the official figures that. yes it is absolutely official but even a question is the country's new president elect with almost sixty four percent of the vote sixty three point six in fact in his favor that's about forty five million people choosing him to be the country's president with his closest rival the leader of the communist party united you've got of the man who's been running in just

about every complaint since the collapse of the soviet union garnering seventeen point two percent that's twelve million people voting for him because you broke out of the new comer to russia politics also quite an impressive result for him with seven point eight eight percent in his favor five million people voting for him the liberal democratic leader. at six point two percent to four million people voting for him and last but not least again it all of the leader of the just russia party the former head of the opera house here the russian parliament garnering three point eight percent that is to say two point seven million people voting for him certainly that had been lots of speculation whether there would be a victory for what he would put in the very first round or it is a battle for the kremlin would go into a second round runoff but definitely this will not happen now what you can put in has managed to garner to a achieve this victory in the very first round and last night after the polling stations closed around the country he spoke to a crowd of

a hundred thousand one hundred thousand people of his supporters right here in front of the kremlin just meters from where i'm standing right now let me put it was certainly very emotional about this and he keep the praise on the his supporters for achieving this victory being very delighted. with the way things went for him. i refuse to quit when we have won in an open and fair battle but this wasn't just an election of the president it was a test of political maturity in independents and we have shown you 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. one with the support of the absolute majority of voters to clean victory we will work honestly and hard we will be successful if we call on everyone tonight over the interests of our people and our country yeah i did promise you we would

win you. win we haven't won. we understand it's more than ninety five percent of the votes that have been counted so far certainly one hundred percent result will be announced in the coming days but this is certainly a formality and it's absolutely clear now that it will become president for the third time in twelve years and the russian election authorities say no effort has been spared to make this election the most transparent to date how well have those preparations worked out. well those mass protests which russia has been seeing in the last three or four months since the call i mean three vote in december could not have gone unnoticed by the authorities and they actually tried to make this election the most transparent in russia's more than history and definitely that project off installing web cameras at ninety one thousand polling stations across the country alone cost almost health a billion u.s. dollars to the state budget now we also certainly know of hundreds of thousands of

independent observers those are regular russian citizens who just express their will to take part in the selection process they were also there the polling stations trying to mourn and so whether it will run smoothly and whether no violations were detected there as well as certainly almost seven hundred international observers who were also there to check on the transparency of this election but certainly that we passed the selection now there will be no second round as i said and now the main focus is on how life will be off of this election with which in becoming russia's president for the third time and to talk about this i'm joined live in moscow by sygate the political rights are with the congress on daily many thanks for joining us here in moscow and my first question to you we we've been hearing a lot from putin and and everyone in the power that russia will change that it is looking for a major major shifts do you think we'll see the new push in the new russia with his

presidency well let me start by saying that election results came as no surprise not only commute but to the mooste analysts here actually turn sides with opinion polls which were made before the elections but at the same time we should not be fascinated with the major of this figure i understand that nearly sixty four percent of support this is really confortable majority but at the same time we have to understand that in a sudden great. march for more than russian history as a sort of worship as a feeder which. shows that russia is entering the period once for medieval change this is a very exciting moment full of adrenalin and we have to see what sort of a change it will be what kind of change do you think it will be while the question is still in it but i think that the main battle wise heads and for myself i came to understanding that this will be sort of a battle between the two alternative concerts all of the state the relevant here

and development strategist for myself and i didn't try the first because of it's unfortunate land and obviously it's of the supporters of putin led will strike could do the level best to remove presidents so what does putin lead put in when he's a state which is north going back strong from. that time will be a reforms which was started by outgoing president would be a job. for all of us are to do lend one to reforms not to be restricted to cops like skolkovo all they want to become political system the way it works they want russian political system to be transparent as russia's economy where they will be no nepotism and no corruption and some of those people who support the idea they're still loyal to me who would you know about the ones who do believe in such a state and i think he can capitalize on that on the other hand this other group of

persons as well as russian probably who are associated with a deal. they just need status quo they need just some ten dollars from this deal they don't want any change because they believe that the stability of this is something which can make russia through even in that statement state which is that nowhere so this is very exciting moment it's really interesting to see how things will hold us all have time for now thank you so much back to you. care of course not alexia shasta thank you for that. but left foreign observers say that to russia has said head to the principles of fair and free elections in full account talk to one of them what it says of the vote show knew her how do you view the election process and the results. yesterday. it was a number of bullies sure to get a flow meter so we visited the rich two hundred

filmmakers or something. to actually see only a boat. the situation in the fridge and the polling station to we just didn't close . our certainly since. i have not looked into yet till the reform so i was not a pointer so to observe the election persists. a little for there are some some of them. to you it's regis. we'll know quite stupid just because country. and what they would like to say it's. just a. seven fold station yesterday. it was sixty. villages . do we. fly to one

correlation a lot of the polling stations. i mean. build the local monitors. told us to before we came to the polling station the election commission. did not lead them to do the job. so it was a said to it was. one of seven. got to be a. visitor to. so. we have some time to get a few hours to. the reports from our winters. and to some of. the. cable international round should move her thank you for that a firsthand view. stay with us here for

a second day of our special presidential election coverage action studio will start broadcasting at three pm g.m.t. we need the latest results and a variety of opinions across the political spectrum. while international monitors have been praising the election but there's a rather different view from some russian observers let's get the details on that from artie's jacob greaves jacob what's been the position of some of the local monitors. certainly some differences in opinion here she said now there have been those from the protest movement thirty of their own websites so it's a very different conclusions that of the state to election commission also the independent poultry body based in russia where they say that putin actually what about fifty percent of the votes so the right isn't that the private won the

election rather by how much the margin is in question here they also allege it three thousand took place on voting day itself actually flew gillard should ballot stuffing also what we told ourselves it's come just cried a number of people said the awol polling station a vote during a number of times individually now the situation have refuted this so same in fact there are certain circumstances but people plus the police stations. to give them the opportunity to vote to election commission of also being forced to answer one of the issues this is a video that's been loaded itself a polling station in the russian republic of dagestan in the north caucuses there is allegedly shows ballot stuffing taking place central action commission said that any results from individual polling station would be counted towards the end vote. and how have the opposition leaders been taking the news of the mayor and his

victory. for keep presidential candidates have been very vocal on this issue asked to be said among the law itself because of russian billionaire billionaire now he had about thirty thousand observers here his disclosure. they paid. for by late to place this is an issue they want to take to court also the lies that you know he's gone up he comes. from over he say that there are so many cases of that to the day but the result is in fact a ballot. and does this mean we're going to see more protests than jayco. yes well we are expecting to see protests some actually occurring at seven pm moscow time later this evening i'll be the opposition movement really showing their cost sentiments which is the anger on the basis for the december parliamentary elections

how the cases of electoral fraud have perceived inaction on behalf of the authorities hasn't really gone away outright beats presidential elections course there is this other side there is the support for prime minister vladimir putin has manifested itself a number of times and later this evening a gamer it's great to see nasheed a youth movement loyal to united russia prime minister vladimir putin they will be broadly its opposition protest. ok chremes from a busy central moscow location thank you. media comments in the e.u. has been mostly critical of his decision to run for the presidency again let's gauge the mood now from london correspondent laura smith joins us live norah how is putin is victory being viewed in the u k. well i have to say the press coverage this morning is really overwhelmingly negative but that's not surprising that's what we saw in the lead up to the election as well the media had already decided it

was going to win this election and b. that it would be essentially a break from the stories that we're seeing in the papers this morning are really a sort of rehashing of what they were saying in the lead up to the election as well i've been looking at some of the papers across the spectrum of sort of from the highbrows right down to the very very proud to mention it's all this morning we've got the big guns in the telegraph and synagogues in terms of pizza and commentators and journalists in the guardian this morning we've got called doing is saying that it's putin has just six more years to draw level with. in terms of the time that he would have been in power in russia president was sitting in the hot seat eighteen years and he. will be drawing up on his trial yeah the headline in the guardian as well it says that irritating habits die hard it's accompanied by a large picture of

a rural polling station of women walking around with essentially a. suitcase ballot box for people to put their ballot papers into that of course is in reaction to these allegations of carousel saying where people were alleged he tossed around to different polling stations to be several times it was the comments in the guardian says that people were sent racing going around them for things to pay or space to be again we brought. in the daily telegraph me tourists the t.p.c. and he writes a note for the economist he's saying that speech in may have won the election but he's lost the battle for the middle class is the economy back to the swelling position which we understand is going to turn out into the streets again they said today that he has won this election battle but he has lost the war head. in the telegraph that its claims of pole fraud to taint victory in the daily mail we've got a rather nice little car seat actually the picture is of

a fall back talking his son into bed and the caption reads there's nothing certain in this life but death speech and winning an election so really the press coverage here overwhelmingly negative points a lot to the opposition to the sort of big guns coming out in the british newspapers but has there been any reaction from the british leadership we haven't heard any reaction from the british yet by the time i came into the studio this morning either from the prime minister david cameron or from the leader of the opposition we understand that what they're waiting for is this the view from the pool from the international election observers so we're expecting more reaction from them later on in the day. ok laura smith a lot from london. well the right story to head over to our business desk with katie and get to latest financial news katie we've heard from various people and with him it seems victory what are the markets make of it all yeah well i mean there are give a they've got the biggest say the numbers speak for themselves but right now this

hour we foster a little bit of the optimism we saw earlier on and it's a modest gains that we're seeing on the russian markets but if we look at a yearly basis you're looking at a sort of twenty four percent which makes the russian markets the best performing stock market in the world so far this year right now we're looking at gains we got half a percent of the r.c.s. and around a quarter of a percent for the my sense we're going to take a look as an individual and see what they're looking like of this hour as you can see we still got some free positive gains there because the she'd be up one and a half percent ross ness a quarter of a percent gas from point seven percent up in a positive territory that we can see how europe is getting on they just opens up the business see what they've got to say about today and it's a different color scheme for them it's a splash of red sox some love because of signs to our miners after china cuts is

economic forecast from eight percent to seven point five percent still very enviable growth but not as good as they were expecting that also has an effect on your prices as well and let's take a look at the exchange rates of for this hour we've got the ruble losing against the greenback and the euro as well as that the euro is moving it's moving lower against the u.s. dollar now and much of that is because greece is expected to stay to meet their private creditors once again this week we'll be following that i'll have more for you kerry in about an hour's time from me at the business desk. ok thanks for that casey. now election that favor aside president medvedev has ordered a review of the sentence handed down to jailed former tycoon. serving consecutive prison terms on tax and fraud charges that's discuss this more than the cost of a marina why do you think this announcement is is coming out today. will it is

a tricky time to be announcing this given the fact that it comes just a day after the presidential elections but it's really come as a surprise because back in december vladimir putin did say that he was considering a pardon because of the boesky if a key admitted his guilt and he would do that if you won the presidential elections we also know that this comes after a meeting the president needs to get had with the leaders of on the largest search and largely oppositional political parties here in russia and this is just the pampering and supposedly a gave him a list of people they're regarded as political prisoners and for weeks some already describing this as the government's way of handing out and all of france to the opposition but we do not know what motivated the prize there to make such a decision to impose his lawyer has already said that it would have to judge the significance of this move once the investigation completed out her view is based on

the basis and the legality of the convictions of thirty two russian citizens and among them is because of the pope's speech and his partner plots in the lead but that because of the post it was of course russia's richest man at some point and was also the c.e.o. of the purse which was the largest oil company in the country then and then he was arrested in two thousand and three and prosecutors claim that he still will from his own company worth around twenty seven billion dollars and that he went on to sell that approach at higher prices because political ski ended up being convicted in sioux fraud trials and is expected to really since two and thousand. sixty his supporters have always said that the original charges were politically motivated because mikhail khodorkovsky used to phone the russian opposition parties now this review applies to his second conviction which is based on embezzlement and financial crimes and if this is this that that means something else but of course

he will be a free man once again. ok marina we'll leave it there oh thanks for that update. name was mentioned during this presidential campaign many times i thought proper off the newcomer to the top political arena also said the former oil tycoon should be released but find out what the billionaire ten to a politician thinks about the outcome of the election there and we can go live now to our g.'s lindsey rome so busy preferred to better than some been around for a while they still have big plans and visions for the future that. yes indeed. time can be wholly independent on the ballot and the youngest man also on the ballots i took eighty percent of the above and he does have plans for a political future now he also came in second in moscow st petersburg amzi catarina part analysts say it's indication that the russian. political climate very

hungry for this sort of competition and that he appeals to a solid middle class professional demographic that you will find usually in big cities by his campaign team says that his talents are building and maintaining well also lends himself as as a good candidate for voters who want to feeling of security and that's why they went they said last night after the results came in and showed that he had taken about eight percent of the vote now forbes list his assets going around eighteen billion dollars in gold aluminum and south and all. so in the n.b.a. basketball team the new jersey nets he is the first foreigner to actually own an n.b.a. team in history now he plans to based on this this is solid political foundation in his game with his eight percent he plans to start his own political party and

consider running for president again in the future if it's in the cards for him now actually in a phone conversation about a mere putin told him last night that he was impressed with his decent showing in the polls and he wished him the best of luck for the future and to eat ok out is in france and believe it. may be over in russia's presidential election but there's another vote you can take part in the pope they were all skin you the biggest challenge for russia's next president will be results so far let's take a look where most of you forty percent the fending off nato encroachment with the biggest challenge almost a third argue that getting rid of corruption should be the top priority that we have seventeen percent say the main task will be to modernize the country's economy politics nine percent of you they say will be keeping the russian economy taking over. the world economic problems in the north sea seven percent thirty russia's

leverage biggest priority but you can tell us what you think should be at the top of the new russian president in trade costing you if it comes. with asia times correspondent tony that says that despite the russian people making a choice clear u.s. is still a mission to visit for the country. if you're not part of the anglo american masters of the universe narrative you are by definition an entity which you can be russian you can be venezuela can be cuba you could even be argentina the person accused you could be china or whatever to north korea of course syria whatever the point is get over. booting was reelected with sixty three sixty

four percent which is going to be there for six years here ready i'll plan what is going to do the germs of international relations he published a very long article foreign policy last week that was translated at least by some european news favorable but not way american newspapers and that said you know it's what people of world close cooperation pricks the fighting need to encroach minta which is a very very strong preoccupation of russian voters and trying to find a police official russia in this new emerging multiple or organization russia according to the script was still secure russia was not supposed to be some sort of take this was supposed to be a vassal states like a kind of use said to be wrong for the washington interests an effect russia got closer to china the brics came up they start to get integrated to get russia start to be more forceful among the central asian stance as well forging

a little ready for this strategic partnership with germany faggoty if you're germany vestal and russia and russia selling basically natural resources to germany and of course from the point of view of washington this is absolutely a horrible story but there's nothing they can do about it. they ask about it without say the headlines of the next thing they say. wealth of british style. is not on the title.

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